William Billings has been largely forgotten, except among music historians. But he was the country’s first notable composer, ...

The associate justice wrote a new children's book aimed to inspire next generation ahead of nation's 250th anniversary.

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Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch says his new children's book aims to combat declining civic literacy among young people across ...

I was six when I first saw the Declaration of Independence. There, in its old marble shrine in the Rotunda of the National ...

The aging statesman braved rough seas and arduous carriage rides to reach Paris, where he persuaded the French to back the ...

It wasn’t until his junior year of college that civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about a devastating ...

Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very ...

During the American Revolution, Americans mostly ate what was available locally. Some of the Founding Fathers' favorite foods ...

Ken Burns talks to Jacobin about his new documentary, The American Revolution; the ongoing project of 1776; and why the ...