It cannot have gone unnoticed by any careful observer that the history of five centuries ago has become part of the cultural zeitgeist. Hilary Mantel’s two Man Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas Jefferson” looks at one of America’s Founding Fathers and author of the ...

Statue of Thomas Paine writing Common Sense in Morristown, N.J. (Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The first soldiers in the cause of the American experiment ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Story of the invention of the splint by Hugh Owen Thomas and its use ...

Thomas E. Kaiser has been a member of the UA Little Rock faculty since 1976 and a History Professor since 1994. Dr. Kaiser is a specialist in the history of eighteenth-century France, currently ...