This video explores the history of the United States, detailing its journey from independence from Britain to modern times. It highlights significant events, milestones, and transformations that have ...

Critics, reporters and editors who cover arts and culture spent months creating, revising and arguing over this list, as well as consulting historians, curators and other experts. July 15, 2026 Are we ...

Through much of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, as the United States’ popularity around the world has ebbed and flowed, the country has been able to fall back on a baseline of ...

Crime rates, air quality, healthcare access, worker protections, and civil rights laws are among factors that can hurt a state in quality of life rankings. With more states touting their quality of ...

Americans are celebrating 250 years of independence across the country on Saturday. President Donald Trump will address the nation from the Great American State Fair in D.C. Saturday. Attendees in the ...

National Geographic Explorers celebrate the greatest American treasures—mountains, forests, wetlands and canyons—from sea to shining sea. The Grand Canyon has featured in the history of America's ...

The Liberty Bell is pictured in a file photo inside Liberty Bell Center in Philadelphia. Credit: OSV News photo/Charles Mostoller, Reuters Editors’ note: Pope Leo delivered these remarks upon ...

The United States is celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2026. It’s a major milestone for a country that was born in revolution against a king and comes at a moment when a protest movement against ...

People riding the ferry to Ellis Island for a naturalization ceremony on Constitution Day pass the Statue of Liberty in New York, on Sept. 17, 2022.Alex Kent—AFP/Getty Images When David Lehman set out ...

In the past 50 years, the way we tell the story of the Revolution has become dramatically more complex. Can it still inspire us all? Supported by In the past 50 years, the way we tell the story of the ...

This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. A country in a sour mood. Inflation and gasoline prices soaring. A culture war raging. A president with sagging approval ratings. America at 250?