See “In Pursuit of Life, Liberty & Happiness” before it closes at the end of the year, catch a John Sayles film talk, or a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warning: This post discusses genocide, intense violence, and child abuse. There's a certain version of history most of us were ...

Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the lives and struggles of early Filipino migrants Sam Vong, PhD A Filipino man poses with a Ford Model A car in the 1930s. Filipino ...

Depending on how much you know about the constitution, you may be surprised to learn that Ben Franklin and the founding fathers modeled the United States constitution on the constitution of the ...

Prior to that, it was known as the "United Colonies," among other variations. The final version of the Declaration of Independence begins with the phrase: "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen ...

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

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