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An accounting scholar explains what charitable solicitation fraud is and how it’s connected to allegations some Democratic lawmakers made on July 2, 2026.
The men responsible for the bloodshed 150 years ago were never prosecuted; instead, they rose to South Carolina’s highest offices.
A recent Supreme Court ruling has shifted key decision-making powers from Congress to the president.
A professor of international relations counted the sitting leaders on over 1,000 of the world’s banknotes and coins; almost every one of them is a king or a queen.
Americans have long argued over the revolution’s lessons and legacy.
Marking the first 250 years of the United States of America.
From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.
The Trump administration wants to rid America’s naitonal monuments and museums of what they see as ‘woke’ interpretations of US history.
The medical tools of the Revolutionary period help flesh out the picture of what physical well-being felt like for people living in the American colonies 250 years ago.
Montesquieu shaped how Americans understood liberty, and his warning about a ‘tyranny of opinion’ speaks to today’s polarization.
‘The Folk Box’ sought to trace the roots and branches of American music, and document the forging – and constant reinvention – of the national identity.
A late-19th century campaign spearheaded by Foster’s brother sought to elevate him into the pantheon of American cultural heroes, even as his sympathies tended to lie with the pro-slavery South.
The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port.
Every year, the number of human-caused fires spikes on July 4, and many of them are related to fireworks. When trees and grasses are dry and the temperature high, the risk rises even more.
America’s struggle for independence from Britain was supported by some highly influential thinkers in 18th-century Britain.
President Donald Trump’s capital redesign follows centuries of debate and discussion about how Washington should look to the world.
The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation and the highways that eventually circumvented it.
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.
European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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