Many founders wanted the President to be elected/selected by the U.S. Congress, a much smaller body of elites at that time.

A Jacksonville teen who aspires to be a history professor or public servant wrote a book to help middle schoolers know U.S.

It’s interesting to speculate what the United States would look like today if the smaller colonies in North America had survived. Potentially, Denmark could have expanded into Newfoundland and the ...

Alexis de Tocqueville noticed this as part of the American experience in his Democracy in America in the 1830s. During the ...

One of the deepest schisms within America is those who view themselves as victims of the past, and those who see themselves ...

Under the Electoral College system, states operate on a winner-takes-all basis, allowing a candidate to win all of the ...

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

As the new country developed it became evident that a flag should be created as a symbolic representation of it. The ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. This time, the nation was on notice. Back in 2016, those of us who supported Donald Trump at least had the excuse of not ...

Dozens of former British colonies are challenging their old colonial rulers to make amends for slavery and other injustices suffered under the British Empire. The idea of reparations was floated at ...

Notes from America airs live on Sundays at 6 p.m. ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts. November 4, 2024 • Former President Donald Trump has spent the last days ...