Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

Globe Opinion asked readers and community members about their American identity. From pride to fear, here are some of the ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

The Vicksburg National Military Park today stretches over 1800 acres worth of ravines, woods, and fields. The Vicksburg ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...