At Monticello, we talked to Ken Burns, who was giving a preview of his upcoming PBS documentary on the American Revolution.

On Independence Day, we took an enlightening tour. And it shone a light on Trump’s America, whose people are at one another’s ...

Poplar Forest's main event was a reenactor playing America's third president and a Virginia native, Thomas Jefferson.

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Real patriotic education means that just as our founders loved and honored America, so we should honor them, while deeply learning and earnestly debating their ideas. Adapted from remarks delivered by ...

Historically, July 4 marks the 1776 adoption of the Declaration of Independence, where leaders like Thomas Jefferson defied ...

America’s 249th birthday yesterday was no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, ...

During both of his campaigns, current President Donald J. Trump aggressively courted Christians, netting support from 48% of Protestants, including 72% of white evangelicals, and 52% of Catholics.

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News of the Declaration of Independence reached Great Britain in August 1776 and ignited a media frenzy, according to the Jack Miller Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to teaching about ...

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A shooting early Saturday morning at 7 Elements lounge in South Philadelphia stemmed from a knife fight that spilled out onto ...