Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off the American Revolutionary War, a group known as the Daughters of Liberty formed to protest the Stamp Act, per University ...

U.S. Coast Guard launching a wooden rescue boat on the beach. The United States Coast Guard plays a critical role in maintaining the country’s national, border, and economic security. The oldest ...

“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison agreed to be the scrivener at the Constitutional ...

This brief history, outlined in his new book "The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird," begins with an anything-but-emblematic impression of the bird from years ago. The bald eagle ...