Ames Public Library is celebrating the nation’s 250th with exhibits, events and hands‑on history all month long.

Documentarian Ken Burns releases a 12-hour series, 'The American Revolution,' urging Americans to revisit their country's origins. With his work, Burns challenges myths and offers a complex view of ...

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With a 250th birthday in sight, we wanted to ask Americans what it means to be an American and reflect on what the founders ...

The award-winning documentarian reflects on the complexities of the U.S.'s origin story — and the lessons it offers the present.

But the U.S. and Israeli strikes against Iran could test the durability of that cohesion. Initially, Democrats balanced ...

Created by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, the documentary “The American Revolution” that recently aired on PBS explores the details of the events that happened in ...

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If one sets aside the partisan impulse to reject the speech’s content and style simply because of who delivered it, and focuses instead on the fundamental questions America must answer, the frame ...

Loyalist of the slain supreme leader, sanctioned by US for directing recent crackdown on protesters, now sits on council ...

Howard Fuller burst onto the national stage in 1990 as a political organizer when he joined forces with the late state ...

President Trump clashed with congressional Democrats during his State of the Union as some loudly objected to his second-term policies.