It’s about time. The New York Historical announced Tuesday that its long-awaited expansion dedicated to US history will open ...

The Price of Democracy tells the history of taxation from colonization to the present day. It's essential reading for anyone ...

When American Public Television kicked off its Fall Marketplace conference Nov. 11 in Cleveland, CEO Jim Dunford interviewed Mark Updegrove, presidential historian for ABC News who also hosts the APT ...

As we approach the climax of our presidential campaign with the November general election, we are conscious that history is about to be made that will determine the future of our democracy. Events and ...

Model homes sit vacant in the center of a 750-home housing development where construction was halted November 20, 2008 in Rio Vista, California. Land and property ownership have colored American ...

The "Voices and Votes: Democracy in America" exhibit opens Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Priest River Library, West Bonner Library District officials said.

Amid the United States’ celebration of the 250-year anniversary of the American Revolution, journalist Osita Nwanevu says it may be time for the country to wipe the slate clean and build a new ...

Supporters of both major U.S. political parties tend to claim their presidential candidate is the "real" Christian or the "better" Christian or just the "true" Christian. For a majority of white ...

Now that the votes are almost in, the Headway Election Challenge asks teenagers for the lessons they are taking away from this election year. By Matthew Thompson The voting is almost over, and now the ...

Anti-democratic efforts are not new in America. We don’t have to import history lessons from abroad to learn of dangers and atrocities a successful collapse of democracy can bring. Some of the 28 men ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.