The Arusha Declaration, published on 5 February 1967, was an aspirational document. Much like South Africa's 1955 Freedom Charter, it did not describe the world as it existed. Instead, it attempted to ...

After arriving from Ireland as an indentured servant, George Taylor called the Lehigh Valley region home for most of his life ...

While the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the United States' rebellious ...

Filipinos who have heard of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) or its former iteration as the National Historical Institute, know it as the government agency responsible for ...

Taiwan, whose people elect their own leaders and whose government controls a defined area of territory with its own military, ...

A national Christian advocacy group that supports letting students leave school grounds for religious instruction now is ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

It also houses many of the country’s founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, holds 13 billion pages of text and 10 million maps, charts and drawings, and tens of millions of ...

A controversial civics bill that would promote fostering a national identity by teaching some topics and prohibiting others ...

President Donald Trump has terminated the head of the National Archives and Records Administration, targeting an independent agency that was involved in trying to recover documents he took to his ...

The bill would require the Ten Commandments be posted in each classroom in South Dakota's public schools. But it could face legal challenges.

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised a “revolution of common sense.” However, one area of US government policy that has lacked “common ...