Of all the schisms that cleave contemporary America, few are more stark than the divide between those who consider themselves ...

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American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific ...

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The 248-year-old letter was written in the same month as the Declaration of Independence was adopted. It’s going up for ...

in Philadelphia on September 10, 2024. Blaming immigrants for eating pets was an American urban legend years before Donald Trump spread the baseless rumor about Haitians in Ohio. (Photo by Win ...

Area residents are accustomed to seeing flags placed beside the graves of military veterans in time for Memorial Day.

The book remained the canonical statement on American exceptionalism until the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan subtly reframed the argument by repurposing the Puritan vision of the City on a Hill.

Sobhraj was sentenced to life in prison, which is only 20 years in Nepal, in 2004 for killing 29-year-old American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. A decade later, he was also found guilty of ...