Brodsky is a contributor for TIME. Society This American Life is such a staple in the podcasting space, it would be easy to forget that it actually began 30 years ago as a radio show. But it's easy to ...

The film chronicles the life of Washington Irving, the youngest of eleven children in a modest family, who became a prominent American writer. Despite a brief pursuit of law, Irving's natural talent ...

See how William McKinley's tariff policies that have inspired President Trump's affected everyday Americans in the 1890s.

"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy an elevated position in the American imagination. He was, after all, the man who risked life and limb to fly a ...