As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible.

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

The founding principles that make this country great and that we celebrate today are exactly what drew the author here from ...

How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

The 8’ x 10‘ oil painting was made in Ohio by Archibald McNeal Willard (1836-1918) for our country’s 100th year anniversary.

The Biennial balances global perspectives with local voices proving the city remains a crossroads where art, history and ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

The situation was tense and painful, because 18th-century Americans didn’t quite see themselves as Americans. They trusted they were active members of a powerful, expanding British Empire. What had ...

'Holy Grail of shipwrecks': Discovery of 18th century Spanish galleon sparks £16 billion legal fight Colombia, Spain, Peru and indigenous communities are all vying for ownership of the San José ...

This makes it impossible to automatically dismiss blueprints for using an 18th-century law, however dubious, and it appears the Venezuelan deportations case appears headed for the Supreme Court.

Americans did not revolt against the nature of British government. Rather they objected to their changing place within the British Empire.