Today, America’s story has been replaced by a new and controversial approach, one defined by post-modern theories that see ...

Unable to agree on how to interpret the American story, the country’s schools, universities, and political institutions have stopped trying to tell it at all.

From daring solo hikes on either coast to tales of community on the road, explore our great nation in these 10 nonfiction ...

In a similar vein, Vice President Vance has claimed that Americans who can trace their ancestry to those who fought in the Civil War are more American than those who can’t. The historian David Hackett ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A view of the Action Comics No. 1 cover National Museum of American History Before Superman and Captain America became global symbols of heroism, joined cinematic universes and inspired Halloween ...

If you select “virtually any date in US history, it would be possible to find the same poisonous ingredients [… that] percolated violently to the surface on January 6th, 2021,” writes journalist and ...