The National Museum of American History adds 'Action Comics No. 1' and 'Captain America Comics No. 1' to its vast pop culture ...

On September 3, AEI’s Yuval Levin, Christine Rosen, and Adam J. White hosted a symposium at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello examining the American Revolution’s legacy in American history. The first ...

Black history is American history. The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) faces possible loss of federal funding after being targeted by a Trump administration executive ...

Colonies of North America in 1776, at the United States Declaration of Independence. Statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. Thirteen American colonies then at war with Great ...

In 2026, the United States will mark an extraordinary milestone: 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. This Semiquincentennial, often called America 250 or ...

Parades, pageants, flag-waving and fireworks. These, plus a good dose of history, will all play a role in the United States Semiquincentennial celebrations leading up to and on July 4, 2026 — the ...

At the Smithsonian Institution, historian Jon Grinspan is a curator in charge of that part of the "Nation's Attic" that holds the objects of American democracy and politics. "I call this the fossil ...

Smithsonian magazine explores some of the many ways to celebrate the nation and looks back at how previous big birthdays were commemorated amid domestic turmoil ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

For much of the twentieth century, the American right was suspiciously absent from historians’ grand narratives of the United States. In the early Cold War, social scientists and political theorists ...