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 ...

This episode compresses the history of the United States into 45 seconds using Google Earth, tracing the nation’s expansion from thirteen colonies on the Atlantic coast to a continental and global ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative ...

The "Injustices" series aims to educate Americans on historical events not always covered in schools. EJI founder Bryan Stevenson believes learning this history is crucial for understanding ...

Children gathered in the greenery of Sussex and Passaic counties more than 80 years ago to frolic at summer camp. “In ever-increasing numbers, the nation’s youth has been going away to camp,” a 1930s ...

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Author’s Note: The idea for this article began as a retrospective look at the 1972 Olympic Diving Trials, 50 years later. But as I started my research, I began to understand the role those Trials ...