How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

One of the highlights of the American summer is July 4th. Fireworks, parades, and barbecues are all staples of the ...

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.

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

That myth was not born by accident. It was crafted, polished and weaponized. It was built on decades of policy choices and ...

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’ ...

Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...

Captain America should be the most jingoistic superhero. But on this July Fourth, it's good to remember that he, like America ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

Among the thousands of Spanish workers who arrived in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century were many ...