Recent rehabilitation of this important site at the Gettysburg battlefield provides a much improved experience for visitors.
A Chinatown cook's fight to re-enter the U.S. in 1895 went up to the Supreme Court, which upheld his claim to birthright citizenship and guaranteed it for all through the 14th Amendment.
Dickinson played a pivotal role in our Nation’s founding, from the Stamp Act to ratifying the Constitution, but his contributions are largely forgotten by history.
Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.
American resistance to British authority developed with stunning speed 250 years ago in response to George III’s inflexibility.
Enlisting an army of alter egos, Adams used the Boston press to make the case for American independence and to orchestrate a burgeoning rebellion.
Sixteen historic sites in Boston remind Americans of the events that led to our nation’s birth, from the Boston Massacre to Breed's Hill and the USS Constitution.
The outcome of the American Revolution may have been affected by catastrophic storms in the deadliest hurricane season in recorded history.
At a curious stone tower in Somerville, Massachusetts, panic in 1774 could have sparked a war seven months before Lexington and Concord entered the history books.
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul
"Americans are united by their history and by a faith in progress, justice, and freedom," writes President Kennedy
First of the Three Parts from STILWELL THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-1945