American higher education can and must be reformed. If we are genuinely serious about restoring higher education to its proper function, it will look little like it does today.

As the country observes the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Judy Woodruff is starting a new chapter of America at a Crossroads. She’ll explore what it means to be an American, ...

Little is known about the two sets of skeletal remains uncovered during an excavation in downtown Frederick last week — only ...

The House’s 1876 measure failed, falling short of the two-thirds majority for amnesty required under the 14th Amendment. But the broadside from the News — published by William Byers, a leading figure ...

The Conversation convenes with Emily Bazelon, David French and Aaron Retica discussing the questions reshaping American ...

Virginia Opera announces its upcoming production of Intelligence, the powerful new opera by composer Jake Heggie and ...

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

The National Institutes of Health is deciding, per court agreements, whether to award or deny droves of grant applications that the agency previously either rejected or shelved. This funding was ...

How Did Service in Mexico Influence Later Performance? In recognition of the importance of the Mexican-American War in military education, Prof. Johnson (Lipscomb University) has collected essays on ...

The brief Mexican-American War (1846-1848) was one of the US’s five constitutional wars, that is, it is one of the only five ever declared by Congress. A brief history of the conflict can be reviewed ...

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time. After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a ...