I was part of a Hanoverland Festival panel wrestling with the question: “Does the arc of history bend, explode, or do something else toward justice?” ...

For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

In a similar vein, Vice President Vance has claimed that Americans who can trace their ancestry to those who fought in the ...

Introduction -- Prologue : First, America first -- Part one. 1900-1920. The American dream 1900-1916 : the spirit of American dreams -- America first 1900-1916 : pure Americanism against the universe ...

This Fourth of July was unlike any other. On July 4, 2026, the United States turned 250 years old — a milestone historians call the semiquincentennial, and one the country marked with the largest ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ideas have gained currency in recent years, making it likely that the nation’s ...

Reshma Saujani, founder of Moms First, traveled around the country while producing a historic documentary about motherhood in America. Motherhood has become part of the culture wars. It can be seen in ...

The New English Canaan by Thomas Morton criticized the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz The American Library Association reports that 2022 saw more ...

In its 83-year history, a lot of people have wanted to shut down Voice of America. The U.S. government-funded broadcaster began during World War II, broadcasting in German to provide the German people ...