The Declaration of Independence includes a searing attach on Native people, but the founders still drew on Indigenous ...

The grievances are not partisan because the grievances are not new. They are the same grievances written in the same hand ...

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez claims the American Revolution was against billionaires, drawing sharp criticism from Republican senators and political observers.

In 1788, Virginia convened a convention to debate ratification of the new U.S. Constitution, promulgated in Philadelphia the ...

On America's 250th anniversary this July 4th, honor those who sought justice — not those who didn't practice the ideals they ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns writes about the Founding Fathers' notion of citizenship and how democracy demands participation and engagement.

American cities need bold renewal. What we need is a "MadeCity" vision - a vision for intentionally crafting or "making" ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Wire star Clarke Peters is narrating an eight-part podcast, Founding Fathers: Am American Dream. The series ...

With Father’s Day approaching, we should remind ourselves that the Founding Fathers were not only America’s symbolic fathers, but many were pulling dual duties as real fathers as well. John Adams was ...

Samuel Adams discovered his calling in midlife when he got involved in politics and picked up his quill pen to write about it. Adams became a prolific writer of pro-independence essays published in ...

Independence Day is July 4. We took a look at how some of the Founding Fathers of America made their fortune. Many of them ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills got the obvious out of the way when asked about what America's founding fathers would have thought of the presidential election between former president ...