A s we commemorate Thomas Jefferson’s role in the founding of the United States at its 250th anniversary, it is worth noting ...

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W hen America’s Founders wrote the declaration that gave birth to the new nation, they began by saying that “a decent respect ...

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For a century, the tiny Coolidge Auditorium, at the Library of Congress, has been a wellspring of cultural integrity, ...

It was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff well beyond what’s commonly assumed.

More than a decade before Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, she was a sexual assault investigator.

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