To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

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The “Star Trek” star appeared on an episode of Audie Cornish’s podcast “The Assignment” to promote his new graphic memoir, ...

On the eve of our nation's 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel "extremely" or "very" proud of ...

Juneteenth came and went, but curiously something seemed to be missing from the annual celebration: a cordial salute from the ...

Of the 3,242 counties and their equivalents in the United States and its territories, Hamblen County is the 3rd smallest in ...

Fast on the heels of the recent “No Kings” protests against President Trump comes an odd suggestion that Americans would be better off today if we had remained part of ...

Test your knowledge of American history and the Fourth of July with CNN’s Independence Day Quiz. And be sure to watch CNN’s ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

In The Afterlife of Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker (a former journalist and editor at Newsweek, NBC News and CNN and the author, among other books, of Saying It Loud: 1966 – The Year Black Power Challenged ...