A multisport athlete at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, Justin Aimonetti comes from a family with deep Bay Area ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, “We had an office in the Department of State whose job it was to censor Americans.” ...

Almost from the advent of the lithograph, Mexican political cartoons have proved a tool to mock power, examine culture and ...

The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, ...

President Donald Trump’s neo-isolationist policies differ from the ideals of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who ...

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Jeff Ficek continues his Spirit of '76 series with this fourth installment, exploring the men behind America’s founding.

Russell Riley co-chairs the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

While the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the United States' rebellious ...

An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the ...

At the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, a new exhibition has gathered together 17 historic flags that ...

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from ...