On Tuesday, August 6, 1918, “so hot was it that the asphalt paving of the downtown streets became so soft that in places the ...

But only five justices voted to invalidate the order on constitutional grounds. The other four indicated varying degrees of ...

Brand America was all over the place—to the point that some deemed the nation’s 200th birthday the “buy-centennial.” ...

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

Jamir Nazir, the controversial winner of the Commonwealth award, tells his side of the story.

Many literary classics have a way of appealing to our lizard brains while making us question why we're so compelled by them.

Indeed, the Founders would have been hopeless without them. To begin to piece together a fuller history of the Revolution, ...

To mark the occasion of America’s centennial, the people of Taunton, Massachusetts, invited James Russell Lowell—distinguished poet, founding editor of The Atlantic—to compose and read an ode for the ...

Versions of the Ross flag, now a logo for Freedom 250, the White House–endorsed semiquincentennial planner, have been popping ...

This year’s Fourth of July fireworks show on the National Mall is the first such event to be designated a “National Special ...

You don’t need to know a thing about France, or tactics or formations, to fall under the spell of the team’s sorcery with a ...

A scorching heat wave in Europe, a bonfire celebration in Argentina, a Pride parade in Seattle, semiquincentennial ...