Despite growing pressure, library professionals and advocates stood strong for the freedom to read in 2024—continuing to ...

Before it was history, the Declaration of Independence was news. Not everyone got the story right.

The countdown to the 250th anniversary of America’s independence has begun, and museums are already lining up celebrations to mark the milestone. Far from empty flag-waving exercises, these ...

As the United States commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, NPR and Member stations explore ...

Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to ...

There’s one superpower that dominates the planet again, and it’s the United States. In just one year in office, President Donald Trump has catapulted the U.S. from a country that seemed on the brink ...

As a refugee medical examiner for Los Angeles County, I have had the privilege of being the first doctor many new arrivals see in the U.S. In these moments of vulnerability, refugees share not just ...

On his first day back in office, President Trump issued an executive order to change the name of the body of water that had been known since the mid-sixteenth century as the Gulf of Mexico to the ...

The nine-week voyage of the Puritan ship the Arbella in 1630 is almost as mythologized as the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock. The Arbella was the ship on which Massachusetts Bay Colony’s governor ...