The annual festival, which features events in Lincoln and Omaha, begins Sunday with a family day at the Sheldon Museum of Art ...

Government overreach challenges America's founding principles of equality and freedom, echoing concerns from the Declaration ...

Trump’s brutal cuts to arts funding demonstrate the vulnerability of a culture sector tied to state ideology. How will Chicago rebuild?

The Fourth of July offered a grand teachable moment for educators, especially progressive ones. As an assignment for my summer sociology classes, I would typically have students read Frederick Douglas ...

Virginia Humanities, the state humanities council based in Charlottesville, has announced its first round of grants since the ...

The 250-statue National Garden of American Heroes, originally set for completion in July 2026, should be finished “during” Trump’s second term, the White House said.

Now, you may be saying to yourself: How could you collect the Declaration of Independence? Isn’t it displayed at the National Archives in Washington D.C.? Did Nic Cage steal it?

The artwork is being loaned to museums across the country as part of the gallery’s two-year “Across the Nation” initiative ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

The councils have been working on programming for America250, an initiative marking the milestone anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the Republican ...

National History Day organizers have already decided on a theme for next year: “Revolution, Reaction, Reform in History” in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence’s 250th anniversary.

How Juneteenth National Independence Day became more than a federal holiday reveals a transformation in how the nation remembers freedom. First celebrated in Texas in 1866, the holiday now reaches ...