In ‘This Week in History,’ a refitted merchant ship reached a tiny Dutch island and received a historic and unexpected ...

The subject of an intriguing new exhibition at the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History would make a great trivia question: What was the first foreign power to acknowledge the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Weitzman is shining a light on an important historical event with an exhibition of the same name called, "The First Salute." "It tells the largely overlooked story of Jewish ...

In artist Phillips Melville's mid-20th-century painting, the brig Andrew Doria receives the United States' first international recognition of independence when it arrived in port at Sint Eustatius ...

Jonathan D. Sarna ’75, MA’75, H’25, is University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History Emeritus at Brandeis University. He also is the past president of ...