Until its discovery in May at the archives in Groton, Massachusetts, American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery ...

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A new weeklong summer learning program called Freedom School at the African American Museum of Iowa aims to immerse middle ...

Organizers see the coming year of festivities, which start Thursday, as a way to help unite a polarized country and bridge ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Works from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts illustrate a nation's uneasy progress through the lens of one of the ...

The nation's 250th birthday, in 2026, comes amid fierce debate over President Trump’s attempts to exert government control ...

President Donald Trump has promised that the “big, beautiful bill” passed by the Senate and being considered by the House of ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...