The revolutionary Samuel Adams is credited with writing the document in 1777. It referred to “a just and necessary war” ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

Christopher Leach's “Find of the Week” is created in partnership with The Historic New Orleans Collection. WGNO spotlights ...

When the enslaved people at the Patton Plantation, now known as the Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site, were ...

Pope Leo XIV spoke of the beatification this week of Mother Elisva Vakha’i, a 19th-century Indian religious and founder of the Third Order of the Teresian Discalced Carmelites, highlighting her ...

Black Friday started in 1869, when greedy Wall Street men tried to corner the gold market and crashed the U.S. economy. In ...

This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies. Across continents and generations, communism has ...

The story of America is written with the courage, honor, and dedicated service of our veterans. Through their sacrifice, the fires of freedom burn brightly, our Republic secured, and our way of life ...

National security, unlocked. Each Thursday, host Mary Louise Kelly and a team of NPR correspondents discuss the biggest national security news of the week. With decades of reporting from battlefields ...

President George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation under the new U.S. Constitution on Oct. 3, 1789, ...

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

In 1863, as the nation was embroiled in the greatest challenge since its founding, the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln found time and reason to take note of the innumerable ...