At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

Posting the Ten Commandments in a public school does not establish a religion. It is time for the Supreme Court to reconsider ...

"Standby," longtime ESPN producer Tom Engle called out, and then a few minutes later, Cornette was on millions of television ...

We strive for peace, but history teaches us that sometimes war is necessary. It is impossible yet to know if the Israeli and ...

A new exhibition by New Jersey-based artist Beverly McCutcheon, “The Things They Carried, The Stories They Told, Passions of ...

The larger-than-life legacy of Abraham Lincoln lies, in part, in the smallest special-collections division of the University ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing ...

With our national debt in excess of $36 trillion and rising, there can be little doubt that putting America’s fiscal house in order should be our priority.

Battle lines are being drawn in Washington over whether to reduce spending on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The debate, however, should not be framed solely as ...

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...

When I was in Catholic school in the ‘50s, we had civics classes and learned about the structure of government and key sections of the Constitution. The nuns and, later, ...

Bible Reading: “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the ...