This video is dedicated to Wes Byers (1956-2021). Mr. Beat tells you about that time or two a sitting U.S. President got in ...

In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to ...

Passersby might not pay much heed to the sculptures that make Kennedy Plaza home, but each carries with it a depth of history ...

What started as a ragtag group of colonies that barely held itself together has grown into something the Founders could never ...

From George Washington to Jackie Robinson, these 12 figures represent conflict, courage, failure, ambition, and change in ...

The words of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln remind us: The joy of being an American also carries the pang of ...

Oddly enough, the Civil War doesn't often get the Hollywood treatment as a direct subject. Whereas World War II or Vietnam ...

Poet, philosopher, and suffragist Julia Ward Howe wrote a rallying cry in 1861 that would resonate for more than a ...

The Catholic Church in the United States in 1776 was so tiny that it didn’t play a major role in the American Revolution—but ...

Americans should reject the false choice between an uncritical celebration and a despair that is blind to the country’s virtues.

The Burt-Stark Mansion, Fort Hill National Historic Landmark, Secession Hill, Scenic Highway 11, and Cowpens National ...

What a new Florida history course misses about the founders and slavery—and about the complexity of history itself.