The Elgin Master Chorale is unveiling its 2025-26 season, “Voices of America.” In celebration of the United States’ ...

In a time when respectful debate seems impossible, high school speech and debate clubs have persevered. Debate team members and sponsors see the activity as even more important in a fracturing society ...

It's worth revering not just the document itself, but the men of consequence who made American independence a reality.

In hoping to refresh America — and it would appear we desperately need it — it would be helpful if we got back to our civic ...

A knowledgeable, committed and vigilant electorate is what ensures that the freedom we love will be passed on to posterity.

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

John Breckinridge broke off from the Democratic Party and had a Southern Democratic Party. And he took enough votes away from ...

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

The convention had just reached its monumental high point, and the 40-year-old attorney from Massachusetts excitedly wrote ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

But patriotism’s home base clearly is the United States. Fully half of Americans think their country is the best on Earth, according to a 2021 YouGov survey. And yet one of the greatest elements ...