The summer solstice had barely passed and we were within the first week of July when I saw them. The first day I noticed what ...

​@iammrbeat and @MrBettsClass team up to tell the true story of Paul Revere. According to Mr. Beat, Paul Revere was definitely overrated, and most of us only know about him because of a poem written ...

Ages ago, I had a friend take me to an event in Toronto featuring legendary Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker. The problem was that, at the time, I’d never heard of Volcker, let alone the Federal ...

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 ...

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?

Today, our Nation celebrates the 251st birthday of the United States Army, the oldest branch of the most storied and feared fighting force the world has ever known. For over two and a half centuries, ...

President Trump's effort to rewrite the past at the country's museums, parks and landmarks was struck down on Friday, with a federal judge calling for the administration to restore changes already ...

He never expected to become famous and certainly never admitted to wanting to be famous. He’d studied men like John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, who had sought fame and described its strange, ...

The entwined history of capitalism and race in the Americas and beyond. Better to start the history of the United States in 1492 than in 1776. I have grappled with the relationship between capitalism ...

On a July afternoon in 2019, I found myself in a large, sun-dappled room within one of America’s great estates. An assemblage of distinguished jurists, Ivy League professors, nonprofit leaders, ...