Like Americans today, the people living in the United States in 1826 were preparing to celebrate a milestone for their ...

Ken Burns has done it again. This time, the gifted filmmaker is bringing the American Revolution to the public’s attention. While we prepare to relive our birth moment over six evenings of television, ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work? Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of ...

The second U.S. president, an influential founding father, is not celebrated quite as much as others in the nation’s capital, but that may eventually change as a group is trying to build a memorial to ...

Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose latest book is “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams.” In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and ...

John Quincy Adams had one of the most consequential post-presidencies in U.S. history. NPR"s Steve Inskeep asks biographer Bob Crawford how Adams became the ultimate political maverick. Bob Crawford ...