In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals

He invoked the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt ... Revolutionary War iconography. Those in attendance heard tunes deployed from the classic American songbook ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written generations ago amid a violent conflict.

A bill introduced in the U.S. House aims to carve President Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore, but faces potential roadblocks.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have voiced support for renaming military bases for Confederate generals. In the years following the Civil War, Fort Bragg, Fort Polk, Fort Benning,

The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people. This time, test your knowledge of soda switches, baseball brilliance and revolutionary recipes.

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have fought alongside George Washington.

In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.

DUBAI, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Iran has purchased Russian-made Sukhoi-35 fighter jets, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on Monday, amid Western concerns about Tehran and Moscow's growing ...

Looking for new ways to get students reading and responding to nonfiction? Try these exercises for discussion, writing and speaking. By Peggy Dimock Lead poisoning can cause lower I.Q.s ...

On Jan. 18, shortly after 7 p.m., Mobile police responded to a shooting on Theodore Dawes Road at Interstate 10. Investigators say three victims—24-year-old Marco Alvarado, 30-year-old Cristian ...

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