The government has funded science and then largely left well enough alone. Scientific agencies have been staffed by ...

Anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen at birth, guaranteed by the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause. That clause wouldn't be ...

President's Day is Monday. Here's what to know about it's history, including how it got started and what it has become.

Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic partners and other loved ones.

George W.P. Hunt, who would become Arizona's first governor, was instrumental in guiding it toward statehood in the early 1900s.

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...