More than 1% of Americans headed west in one of the largest voluntary mass migrations in human history. It helped define who ...

In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...

Last year, California-based singer Abi Carter won season 22 of “American Idol.” On Thursday, she’ll be singing as well as playing piano and guitar for the first time in Main ...

In honor of the nation's 250th birthday, USA TODAY is spending a year retracing some of the journeys that helped define the American identity.

Comes as Ukrainian army chief says troops battling 'multi-thousand' enemy forces in key frontline town of Pokrovsk ...