Pat Hickey writes: "News deserts” are expanding throughout Nevada — and it’s not a good sign for the overall health of civic and community life.

Things came to a head in the early 1840s when the case became a family battle over Julia’s citizenship. In New York, as in ...

But I hadn’t thought about Jefferson’s breezy assurance for decades when I stumbled recently across a fascinating experiment in how radically the English language has changed over the centuries.

Bingyi's "Impossible Landscapes" series includes Life and Death (2018), a work featured in the Beijing show. Through its ...

Today, we celebrate the birthday of President James Madison—the Father of our Constitution and intellectual architect of the American Founding, whose ...

Legislators, students, historical society members, reenactors of Founding Fathers, and more gathered March 2 in the Capitol ...

The original Declaration of Independence is secure in the National Archives, presumably safe from Nicolas Cage.

The Declaration of Independence, approved July 4, 1776, dissolved ties with Great Britain and established natural rights.

Written in Jefferson’s own hand, and including a more damning condemnation of slavery, the early draft is part of a major new America 250 exhibit at the American Philosophical Society.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

Librarian Jarrett Dapier's graphic novel tells a fictionalized account of real-life events in 2013 that restricted access to Marjane Satrapi's memoir Persepolis in Chicago Public Schools.

The Ancient Order of Hibernians are waiting for it. So are a lot of others. But almost half way into the month of March there is no sign of the traditional statement from the White House proclaiming ...