The University of Mississippi's Declaration of Independence Center teaches students about founding documents as surveys show ...

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. Their goal was to urge voters to ratify the newly-drafted United States Constitution.

R.F. Kuang and Olivie Blake get existential in new short stories collection "The Time Traveler's Passport." We ask them where ...

America is a politically divided nation, but I’ve witnessed one place where such division cannot afford to exist: the West ...

Congress remains locked in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. While headlines understandably focus on safety-net and healthcare talks, a broader institutional danger looms: elimination ...

The editorial board’s sweeping catalog of the Trump administration’s threats to democracy makes a genuinely important ...

What does it take to win a civics bee? A student from Washington County devotes his free time to studying the U.S.

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

Two closely related words that animated the call for independence from Great Britain were liberty and freedom. Those two words called not only for independence from the then-governing power but ...

Author and historian Jill Lepore’s new book examines the political gridlock that has left many voters disillusioned with both ...

Modern medical science gave Dick Cheney one of its greatest gifts when he received a donor heart in 2012 at the age of 71.  Thirty-four years earlier, Cheney had suffered his first heart attack; he ...