Trump's re-election reveals us to be a people that, for all our star-spangled self-regard, shares the world’s damnable wish ...

he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty ... When the document was presented to the Continental Congress on July 1, 1776, both northern and ...

On July 4, 1776, the 13 colonies claimed their independence from England, an event which eventually led to the formation of the United States ... a Continental Congress in Philadelphia in ...

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress, a group of representatives from the 13 colonies, approved the Declaration of Independence, giving us Independence Day. Independence Day was not ...

1776. Signature of Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States. (Courtesy of Library of Congress) Studying and researching genealogy has provided me with endless hours of enrichment.

Fed up with living under the tyranny of British rule, John Adams attempts to persuade his fellow members of the Continental Congress to vote in favor of American Independence and sign the Declaration.

The United States does not have a state religion and does not force religion of any kind onto the people living here.

Actually, the Electoral College was about both and more. Examining the perspective of John Dickinson, a delegate from Delaware and an architect of the Electoral College who neither distrusted the ...

Though the vice presidency is often viewed as a potential stepping stone to the presidency, only 15 individuals in US history ...

Democracy, the grand American experiment in which the people ruled through their elected representatives, died on Nov. 6, ...

Donald Trump’s win challenges the state’s progressive policies on climate, immigration, abortion and LGBTQ rights. Meanwhile, ...

I can assure you that no one hates war more than those of us who have fought in one ... I decided to find out how we marked Armistice Day in 1924. The congressional resolution for an annual national ...