The event by the National Mall and National Monuments celebrates Marian Anderson's iconic concert. This Easter Sunday falls ...

As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we should honor and remember John Adams and ...

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's ...

Thomas Jefferson, the third president, was born on April 13, 1743. Several years ago, my wife Louise and I had celebrated by ...

In this American time and place, the land of immigrants, it may be that the natural rights of immigrants as human beings will rescue Constitutional Rights for all of us.

Why doesn’t the U.S. use the Metric System? Pirates. In the late 1700s, the U.S. had no standardized system—each state used ...

Odom joined the company of “Hamilton” in its off-Broadway run before the musical opened at the Richard Rogers Theatre in ...

"Mount Rushmore for YouTubers. This is like when Rome started to collapse," someone else quipped. Users online were visibly teeming with opinions, with many pointing out that Ryan Higa, better known ...

The exhibit features artifacts from when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had a presence in the former colony of Virginia, pre-dating the Revolutionary War. Featured are original documents ...

Plans for America’s 250th anniversary celebration are at risk due to federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s ...

Jefferson resigned as George Washington’s secretary of state on ... I asked Annette Gordon-Reed, the Harvard scholar and author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy ...