A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of 1776. The scene they witnessed was terrifying. The largest expeditionary force in British history sailed into the American ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - President Donald Trump approved the federal disaster declaration for Hawaii related to flooding damage caused by last month’s Kona low storms. The decision ensures federal ...

Dorothy Walton wasn't just the wife of one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence; she was a patriot herself who once lost her own freedom having been captured by the British for a few ...

Americans often treat their nation’s founding text as a relic best observed through thick glass at the National Archives. It is easy to forget that the old document was once a top story. Emily Sneff, ...

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. The U.S. is currently at war with Iran, even though ...

Several African countries have erected memorials to the victims of slavery, such as this statue in Senegal The United Nations General Assembly this week overwhelmingly backed a resolution declaring ...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. He was uncertain about so many things. But Woodrow Wilson wasn’t at all uncertain about ...