As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

Washington, D.C., hosted a joint birthday parade for President Donald Trump, 79, and the U.S. Army, age 250, on June 14.

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Pope Leo XIV on July 3 appointed two prominent cardinals, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, and ...