The Declaration of Indepenence, not to mention the Constitution that came 11 years later, did not come out of nothing. Over ...

The president and his supporters, and a few academics, also argue that in 1866 there was no such category as an “undocumented ...

It is no secret that President Donald Trump seems to be an extreme narcissist and craves constant attention and praise. He has been getting a lot of attention lately but very little praise. The last ...

As catchphrases go, “speaking truth to power” is a beaut. It’s a storied expression that packs loads of meaning and emotional pow! into four short words. Like a deft line of poetry, “speaking truth to ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

In the last decade, at least 20 states have passed laws or policies that restrict how history can be taught in schools. Since ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Made from natural materials such as clay, water jug filters have been used for hundreds of years in every continent by ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...