The proposed National Garden of American Heroes faces major practical hurdles that experts say make it entirely unworkable ...

In 1971 “We the People” again expanded, to include younger people, with the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18. The ongoing Vietnam War shifted public opinion, and there was popular support for ...

As Simmons College of Kentucky grows, little-known history propels the historically Black college into its future.

The drastic policy shifts will make it harder on those who grow food — and on those struggling to afford to eat.

It’s graduation season in America, one that has been made unusually dramatic and occasionally inspiring by university students such as Cecilia Culver of George Washington University and Logon Rozos of ...

Some families have celebrated Juneteenth for generations while some people are less familiar with it. The purpose of this ...

Just in case Abraham Lincoln ever wishes to give an encore performance of that famous speech he delivered in 1863 at ...

More can be found in two terrific new biographies. Often considered our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis in the movie) is definitely written about the most. More than 16,000 ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

While the practice of preserving bodies can be traced back thousands of years to ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, American embalming developed as a distinct tradition during the 19th century, ...