From its creation in 1701 to its role in American independence and beyond, the Liberty Bell embodies the United States’ ...

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Safdar Jung, the Persian-born Nawab of Awadh and later Prime Minister of a declining Mughal Empire, shaped one of the most ...

Converts to Judaism are often treated as rare exceptions — surprised looks, intrusive questions, comments like “who’s the lucky girl.” Yet conversion is no anomaly. It is now more common than at any ...

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these ...

READING, Pa. — For filmmaker Ann Goodman, Stoneman Willie was never just a local legend. It began as a childhood memory, a story her mother told her. “She’d go to see him in the funeral home with her ...

Trump has wreaked collective punishment on immigrants following the shooting of two National Guard members in DC.

Readers discuss the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy. Also: Hollywood and culture; fighting in a family.

The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.

First the penny. Next, paper checks?

Michelle Obama had a homecoming of sorts on Wednesday night while promoting her new book, “The Look,” in Washington, D.C., the city where she first moved in 2009, becoming forever etched in U.S. and ...

The Middle East and Africa, especially Africa, are given short shrift in the NSS, with the adoption of a policy of ...