He was not only the lone Catholic to do so, but being the richest man in the colonies, Carroll was putting his entire fortune ...

What is happening in the United States of America? In the 250th year of the nation's existence, Americans should not be experiencing such high levels of anxiety and fear about the future of democracy.

As American citizens celebrate 250 years since the country's foundations, Trevor Nelson, a writer who lives in the Valley, ...

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Andrew O’Shaughnessy, a history professor at the University of Virginia, is the author of “The Men Who Lost America: British ...

When America’s founding fathers set out to create a new country independent from Great Britain, they had a lot of decisions to make. One was simply what to call their invention. Today, the world may ...

From vast grids to winding suburbs, Americans have spent two centuries remaking the landscape around property.

Residents of a tiny Oxfordshire village have voted overwhelmingly to declare independence from Britain in a symbolic referendum staged in protest at plans to house more than 1,200 asylum seekers at a ...

What Woodrow Wilson and Abraham Lincoln reveal about democracy, public service, ambition, leadership, and the unpredictable ...

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Three copies of the Declaration of Independence are now in Durham for public viewing Three historic copies of the Declaration of Independence have arrived in Durham for public display, offering a rare ...

Trump is gutting protections for wildlife, clean air and water while abandoning a conservation legacy built by Republicans.