The Constitution is more than a legal code. It is also a framework for union and solidarity.
In the hundred years since his death, features of Woodrow Wilson’s philosophy have become central to international politics and American foreign policy.
Charles Lindbergh and the isolationists of American First opposed Lend Lease and Roosevelt’s attempts to prepare for possible war in Europe.
The boy's vicious killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped to transform America's racial consciousness.
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul
A century after the guns fell silent along the Western Front, the work they did there remains of incalculable importance to the age we inhabit and the people we are.
The discoverer of the New World was responsible for the annihilation of the peaceful Arawak Indians
A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.
The author, who once served under General Patton and whose father, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was Patton's commanding officer, shares his memories of "Ol' Blood and Guts."
"Americans are united by their history and by a faith in progress, justice, and freedom," writes President Kennedy