George Washington was the father of our nation, a man seemingly cast from marble whose service, both in wartime and as president, made both its existence and survival possible. John Adams was his ...

While building a country, the statesmen also built instruments and libraries full of music.

Yes, they were flawed; many of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence – indeed the man who wrote it – were themselves slaveholders. Yes, also: what they did in the summer of 1776 changed ...

Many courageous patriots are responsible for sparking a revolution that culminated in the formation of the United States. Countless military and political leaders, philosophers, soldiers, artists, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person rests their clasped hands on an open Bible while sitting at a wooden table. Photo: Patrick Fore / Unsplash. (The Center ...

Pedro Noguera, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, and I have a podcast (Common Ground: Conversations on Schooling) in which we dig into our disagreements ...

LAKELAND, Tenn. (RFD News) — As the nation celebrates America’s 250th birthday, many are reflecting on the contributions the Founding Fathers made to agriculture. Nichols says many of the Founding ...

The Founding Fathers often disagreed about key principles as they debated the founding of the United States of America. But the right of a common man to own and control property may have been one of ...

To be sure, hubris, ignorance, and intolerance are often the coins of the realm of the far left. A chilling example of that reality was recently on display at the University of Chicago’s Institute of ...

But how do we know what people in 18th-century America sounded like? There are no recordings from the time, of course, so we're left to try and glean information from contemporary journals, letters ...