Accents center on the pronunciation of words, while dialects encompass pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Here, the subjects of Grant Wood's American Gothic channel speaking styles popular in ...

Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America ...

In this Jan. 20, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the ...

President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned. On the one hand, Trump is actively trying to forbid any reevaluation of American racial history, on campuses and in ...

The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Newcomb covers tennis gear/business, stadiums and shoe tech. Tennis at the Newport Casino in the 1880s, the first site of the ...

American farming has a dark and often forgotten history, one shaped by slavery, land theft, and systemic racism. Black farmers, once more than 14% of all U.S. farmers, were pushed off their land ...

To understand the visceral reaction of many in the US to the whole notion of infrastructure privatization, it is important to look at history. Infrastructure has been the binding agent without which ...

Immigrants – some Americans say they can’t live with unauthorized and temporarily protected migrants. They complain that these people place too much stress on state and local services, take American ...

A U.N. resolution adopted in 1947 created the Jewish state. With President Joe Biden pledging unwavering support of Israel in its fight against the Hamas terror group ...