On July 4th, while celebrating the nation's birth, it's crucial to acknowledge the Founding Fathers' complex legacy. Despite ...

His politicization of the name America taps into a long, well, American tradition, as old as the nation itself.

More than 60 years later, then-President Jimmy Carter, carrying on the tradition of the yearly presidential proclamation on ...

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination ...

The product of years of Republican effort, the American tax code now blends traditional supply-side economics with President ...

Capital Region soccer icon Betsy Drambour was in the stands to witness Claire Hutton's first goal for the U.S. Women's ...

On Independence Day, this is the Declaration of Donald Trump: a vision of America remade in the image of his skinflint ...

General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, ...

Being a Virginian made Washington a symbol of the Continental Congress’s effort to show that beleaguered Boston was not alone ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the Declaration of Independence and what inspired the Founders to ...