The Founding Fathers established the Post Office before they signed the Declaration of Independence and it was the government for most citizens because it bound the 13 quarrelsome colonies together.

I retired after 50 years in a most rewarding profession. I reveled in the challenges that were presented. Although I continue ...

James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted on referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech to emphasize that ...

I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

President Donald Trump is extending his efforts to influence American cultural and artistic institutions to the Smithsonian ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that ...

The Greek War of Independence that begun in 1821 is full of memorable events, most of them bloody battles and heroic feats.

The "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" order removes "divisive, race-centered ideology" from Smithsonian ...

President Donald Trump says protecting national security gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with labor ...

For more than a century, scholars and researchers searched for a printed version of Haiti's Declaration of Independence. In December 1952, the Haitian intellectual Edmond Mangonès wrote to his country ...