Why didn’t the United States annex Canada during earlier historical periods? In short, because it didn’t want to. President ...

President Trump, in one of his freewheeling chats with the press, offered last week to declare an emergency at the ...

"The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times and under all ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

The National Endowment for the Arts also said it had eliminated a grant program for "underserved communities." It attributed ...

Congress has the authority to control government expenditures. Donald Trump is the latest president to try to get around that ...

Popular sovereignty, a foundation of the American experiment, must be observed,” writes Lisa R. Halverson in an op-ed.

All these moves are supposedly justified by the idea that the federal government does not play a legitimate role in education ...

We’ve compiled a list of what we believe to be the top-10 UNESCO heritage sites up and down the 50 states, let’s see if you agree. Yosemite National Park is a true wonder of the world. Towering ...

which includes the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, said Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan. Archivists will put on exhibit the 19th Amendment, which cemented the ...