I'm Ben Sheehan, and this is "Civics Made Easy". If you didn't sleep through history or philosophy class, you may remember ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Harper's Weekly image of the first reading of the Declaration of Independence outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on July ...

As the nation observes its 250th birthday, historians can help settle one present-day dispute: Is the United States a democracy or a republic? For years, advocates have argued the point. Yet the ...

As a historian of early America, I know this nation has always been unwieldy, its institutions hammered out from conflicting ideals and the pragmatic lessons of lived experience. Just as Britain today ...