Removing a slavery exhibit in Philadelphia revives a 250-year-old American debate.

As the country observes the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Judy Woodruff is starting a new chapter of America at a Crossroads. She’ll explore what it means to be an American, ...

Whatever the term, historians largely agree: The United States was born out of protest 250 years ago and has been propelled forward by raucous social movements, from abolition to civil rights, ever ...

Racond, a historian of all things Washington, called the speech the soon-to-be president's "most important" action in ...

Initiatives marking the United States’s 250th birthday are in full swing, as Washington aims to celebrate the milestone with an avalanche of festivities. America 250 is the official, multiyear ...

After weeks of heated Cabinet debates, immortalized in part by the Broadway musical Hamilton, which wryly captures one resolution with the line, “It must be nice, it must be nice, To have Washington ...

Federal Hall, at Wall and Broad streets, stands at the site where George Washington took the Oath of Office on April 30, 1789, to become the first U.S. president. Presidential, Congressional and Court ...

A journey around Lower Manhattan highlights the roots of Revolution in the nation's first capital, now New York's largest city.

Make Denmark angry. Make Norway angry. Make NATO’s leaders angry. President Donald Trump’s relentless and escalating drive to acquire Greenland from Denmark, whose government – along with that of ...

The National Portrait Gallery removed key details from the caption beside the president’s photograph. It still has a story to ...

Elected on an isolationist promise, the American president has multiplied foreign interventions. This policy risks weakening ...

Trump returned to office propelled by a seemingly isolationist promise, but the U.S. capture of Maduro illustrates the White ...