From sea to shining sea, music has defined how Americans see themselves -- and their country. On the Fourth of July, these ...

While July 4 is widely celebrated in the US, much of what students are taught about it leaves out the complexities of the ...

“While people have long wondered (and theorized) about what makes people cool, there hasn’t been a lot of actual empirical ...

Read David McCullough’s essay here. “Passage of the Delaware” (1819), by Thomas Sully Thomas Sully is unique among American ...