The American vision has a high degree of tolerance for inequality and a robust commitment to individual liberty, because in the American revolutionary tradition, the pursuit of happiness is an ...

Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...

Five years ago, on July 4, 2020, the country was in the midst of waves of rioting. The proximate cause, the match that lit the fire, was the death of a black man, a violent ex-convict, on May 25, with ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

America’s foremost history documentarian is back at a pivotal moment. But is he avoiding the hard truths about the country’s ...

Both of us reached across the proverbial aisle and tried to hash things out, an endeavor which left me in the unfamiliar role ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

Basing this decision on a discredited report, the U.S. has taken its ideological anti-vaccination crusade global ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...