American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

Our Flag also represents actual boundaries and borders. It is a statement and promise that there exists an actual space where dwells a society based on these ideas of intrinsic personal worth, ...

For the second time ... of a major climate treaty that the country itself fought hard for. Unlike the last time this happened with the Kyoto Protocol in 2001, however, the Paris Climate Agreement ...

They may call it No Kings, anti-ICE, ‘Hands Off,’ pro-Palestine, ‘mostly peaceful’ looting and burning protests of BLM or Defund the Police, anti-fascism, the National Student Walkout for ‘sensible ...

Washington had the requisite charisma and leadership abilities, but he was also chosen because he didn’t crave the job. As ...

Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

Among the many possible choices considered by the Continental Congress, Washington stood out because he embodied the kind of ...

Among qualities George Washington’s contemporaries most liked about him was he was not eager for power, a contrast with so-called leaders of today.

With the Treaty of Paris and the end of the war in 1783, Washington resigned and returned to his farm at Mount Vernon, Virginia. He would be called back again in 1789 to lead the United States as ...

Americans began comparing Washington to Cincinnatus early in the Revolutionary War, and he did not disappoint. With the ...

Jeffrey Sachs comments on how closely 21st-century U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation mirrors how the 19th-century British Empire approached the Russian Empire. "We make up stories about why ...