As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Michigan played an indirect but key role in the American Revolution.

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

The Declaration of Independence established a principle that ultimately doomed slavery, even if it could not abolish the institution overnight.

The progressions, and inevitable reversals, of civil rights in the 20th century have continued America's undeclared civil war ...

*For generations, many Americans have described the United States as a “Christian nation.” The phrase appears in political ...

Nebraska wasn't in existence when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, but it would come to define and shape ...

Did the Civil War bring down the South's wealthiest families? In 1865, the elite faced a reckoning as empires built on ...

The Supreme Court says citizenship can't depend on your parents' immigration status. So why are millions of American families ...

From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of ...

On America’s 250th anniversary, Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer and the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, looks toward the work that is ahead for the country.

Throughout its epic history, the United States have been anything but. The republic’s semiquincentennial will be marked not ...