Stacy Schiff has written biographies of some of history’s most fascinating figures, from Cleopatra to the witches of Salem. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is turning to an American ...

If politics is indeed downstream of culture, then the fight brewing over the American Revolution may wind up being more significant than any result from this week’s midterm elections. The debate is ...

Maybe it's the company I keep. Over the past few weeks, when I've told friends and neighbors that I've been reading a superb new biography of Samuel Adams, almost everyone has responded by saying ...