Long used by Indigenous groups across the Southern United States, yaupon is North America’s only native caffeinated plant. Known by many Indigenous and colonized names, including cassina, asi, ...

A network of 40 organizations with Marxist and Islamist ideologies protest Israel in D.C., chanting militant slogans amid ...

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The 4th of July is a holiday that means national celebration. But what that looks like has changed through the decades. From ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians: "250 years later, is the spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...

T he 2020s have so far been an incredibly hostile era to protest in the United States. The latter stages of the first Trump ...

Republicans are going to celebrate American pride on the Fourth of July as they always do, while Democrats are ready to ...

Thomas Jefferson listened in anguish as the other members of the Continental Congress edited his draft of the Declaration of ...