2025

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. 

Since her untimely death in 1963, the legendary country music star—and the first female to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame—continues to inspire new audiences and artists.

In the Age of Discovery, maps held closely guarded secrets for the kings, adventurers, and merchants who first acquired them.

Some delegates at the Constitutional Convention wanted a strong executive, while others feared the American president might become a king.

Friends of American Heritage gathered to celebrate 75 years of great writing and education about our nation's history.

“Now the war has begun and no one knows when it will end,” said one minuteman after the fight.

This special issue looks at the dramatic and momentous events that occurred 250 years ago this month.

Overshadowed in memory by Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts town of Menotomy saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775.

What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.