Donald Trump has long explicitly challenged a foundational myth of American identity: the idea of the United States as a ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

“The United States has paid for its discovery ... As the facts of our society substantiate continentalism, more people will explicitly espouse it.” ...

his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as ...