Ten years ago, critics of the United States’ mad rush to war were right ... Here’s Martin Luther King, Jr’s assessment of the imperial war of his time: “[N]o one who has any concern ...

In Great Britain, it was Imperial weights and measures and Fahrenheit. "Because Britain had so much influence here in North America, Canada and the United States sided with the Imperial system as ...

if you believe the government, that is. The keepers of the Great Seal of the United States, the emblem on the back of the US$1 bill, want you to know what it is not. It is not a sign that ...

In his latest book Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia acclaimed author Gore Vidal writes that, “Not since the 1846 attack on Mexico in order to seize California has an ...

The modern seal of the President of the United States (image: whitehouse.gov) According to the Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, the modern seal was first defined on October 25, 1945 ...

This month marks the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the Great Seal of the United States, which is most often seen on the back of the $1 bill. But if John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and ...