Until its discovery in May at the archives in Groton, Massachusetts, American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery ...

Every July Fourth brings fireworks, picnics, parades and happy celebrations of American freedom. But behind the festivities ...

If we are to preserve and improve our democracy, the work must be our own and every individual citizen has a responsibility.

Iranian parliament on July 1 reportedly passed a legislation containing death penalty. Death penalty imposed on those ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Bakels said the Seminoles' tactic was to fall back, luring the soldiers into a trap. Then, according to accounts of the ...

At each major crossroad in America’s history — the Revolutionary War, the westward migration, the Civil War, the Great ...

America the Beautiful” by Katharine Lee Bates is as much critique as celebration, writes documentary filmmaker. While Bates’ ...

President Trump will start the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not ...

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4, 1776?

The invention of democracy and the role of judges can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is the subject of Aeschylus’ ...