The Declaration of Independence is about radical opposition to state power. The Declaration takes a stand against political ...

The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, ...

On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Short for “June Nineteenth,” the holiday marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed, on June 19, 1865, ...

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.

The five-point star is a symbol for Texas (the Lone Star State), where the Juneteenth holiday started. The big starburst around the five-point star represents the spread of freedom.

As one critic asked, has Juneteenth devolved ‘into an exploitative and profit-driven enterprise for companies that disregard the true significance of this day to the Black community?’ ...

“They had not seceded from the Union, and they still maintained slavery. Maryland, for example, was one of them. It took the creation of the Emancipation Proclamation, the end of the Civil War ...