Get to know the American South on these top road trips. We've got one for every state, spotlighting Gulf Coast beaches and bayous to Civil Rights landmarks, mountain drives, music trails, and ...

The Declaration of Independence contained within it a revolutionary idea so powerful that it launched the democratic era and ...

Carol Sue Humphrey gave a lecture about how the press impacted the American Revolution in celebration of the country's semiquincentennial.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

V isitors walking Boston’s Freedom Trail pass familiar landmarks — Beacon Hill, the Old North Church, King’s Chapel, and the ...

Historian Louis Hacker explains how early American settlers farmed frontier land from Kentucky to Texas, often exhausting soil fertility ...

Empty Buildings Congratulations to Lane County for purchasing the old Wells Fargo building instead of building a new office building. Perhaps there are other office buildings in Eugene that are ...

Silent retreats have become increasingly common in the United States in recent years. To calm down and reset their nervous systems, people relinquish their phones and reading materials and commit to ...

Outer Banks Voice Each summer, as dusk settles over the Croatan Sound, the sky above the William B. Umstead Bridge begins to stir. A few birds appear first, darting low over the ...

An amateur archaeologists claims to have discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from the site. Scott Dawson claims to have found “hammerscale,” a byproduct of ...

Ella Adams of State House News Service on the commemoration ceremonies to mark the 250th anniversary of end of the Siege of Boston, best known as Evacuation Day.