Ted Widmer, a historian, is the author of the forthcoming book “The Living Declaration: A Biography of America’s Founding ...

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There is something deeply unsettling about Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrase “four score,” meaning 80 years. It’s roughly the ...

There is something deeply unsettling about Abraham Lincoln’s famous phrase “four score,” meaning 80 years. It’s roughly the length of a human life, but is also the interval at which the United States ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

On I puritani, by Bellini, at the Metropolitan Opera. It has been a good season at the Met for “the sweet Sicilian,” as Wagner called Bellini. The company had already staged La sonnambula. (For my ...

White Christian nationalism is widely seen as a partisan movement that only emerged in recent years. But the ideology is as ...

If you follow what presents itself as “reporting” these days, you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who was used as “bait” to get his father, who ...

Congress is debating major funding bills that would avoid another of those phony government “shutdowns” now scheduled for ...

It begins, inevitably, with Henry VIII, who married Catherine but couldn’t produce a male heir. The Pope refused to annul the marriage because Catherine was the aunt of Charles V, the Holy Roman ...

In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

A prolific Kips Bay developer has added four additional buildings in the Manhattan neighborhood to his portfolio. The entity Nere Rose Hill Management, which appears to be affiliated with Bentley Zhao ...