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At a time when the Trump administration has renewed a travel ban on various Muslim majority countries in Africa and the ...
The president and his supporters, and a few academics, also argue that in 1866 there was no such category as an “undocumented ...
They died on the same day: The Fourth of July, 1826 – 50 years to the day after the Declaration. Historians say that Adams’ final words were: “Thomas Jefferson survives,” as if consoling himself with ...
The '80s may not be remembered as a bastion of cinematic greatness, but the decade was actually home to some incredible films - these are the 15 best.
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) indicates a paradigm shift in military research and application, ...
Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...
Discover how Herb Kelleher's bold vision and Dallas Love Field shaped Southwest Airlines into America's most admired low-cost ...
Napoleon Sarony, “The Declaration of Independence,” 1843–1853. Harry T. Peters, “America on Stone.” Lithography Collection. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History This hand-colored ...
At the American Philosophical Society, they house real texts from Philadelphians who lived during the Revolutionary War. In their newest exhibit, they display artifacts and documents that give us ...
Was the founding father of the American Navy a pirate? How does one of the most notorious pirates in British history become an iconic hero of the American Revolution? Long before he went toe-to ...
Frontier and revolution History professor Paul Musselwhite described the Upper Valley as a “very strange corner of the American Revolution.” The Upper Valley was considered a frontier, only recently ...
It’s one of the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding the American Revolutionary War. The most famous midnight ride in American history occurred 250 years ago Friday when Sons of Liberty ...