JB Shreve & the End of History

  This post is part of our collection and series The Empire: A 250 Year American Story. Each week for the duration of 2026, new...

The latest episode of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story returns to the Revolutionary War at the moment the conflict shifts south—where the...

The American Revolution enters its most turbulent phase in this installment of The Empire: A 250 Year American Story. What begins as a northern...

The American Revolution is often remembered as a clean, heroic struggle—Minutemen at Lexington, Washington at Valley Forge, Paul Revere racing through the night. But...

The story of American independence is often remembered as a clean break—an inevitable march toward liberty guided by visionary founders. This episode peels back...

In this episode of The Empire: A 250‑Year American Story, JB Shreve traces the moment when Britain and its American colonies first realized they...

The newest episode of Empire: A 250 Year American Story steps into the threshold of the American Revolution—not through battles or declarations, but through...

This episode traces the southern arc of Britain’s North American colonies and the forces that quietly reshaped them long before independence was on anyone’s...

Bartolomé de las Casas stands as one of the most remarkable and morally complex figures of the early colonial era—a man who began his...

Read a summary of the biggest global headlines from this week and a “faithful consideration” perspective from JB Shreve & the End of History....