As July 4 mark's America's semiquincentennial, Connecticut State Historian Andy Horowitz revisits state residents who helped ...

Should American identity be defined by race and ethnicity? Or by fealty to a set of ideas?

As the US celebrates 250 years, the Declaration of Independence has been curiously absent. Yet its language on the consent of the governed is more relevant than ever ...

Obscured by the din of fireworks, rock 'n' roll, and raucous revelry, a stubborn and crucial question begs to be answered as ...

Part of a King George III statue that was toppled during the American Revolution and turned into ammunition is on display.

The story of the American Revolution was mostly written by White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who downplayed the role of ...

America's National Mammal Just Became the Center of a Federal Land Debate That's Raising Questions ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Scientists have long known that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals lived alongside each other for thousands of years—until ...

Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...

All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. In this episode of The Astounding Pop Mech Show, we dive deep into "Cousin LUCA," who likely lived on Earth only 400 ...

How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers entrenched the idea that the United States was chosen by God ...