Every July Fourth brings fireworks, picnics, parades and happy celebrations of American freedom. But behind the festivities ...

In his eulogy for Lincoln two years later, Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts senator and leading abolitionist, lauded the ...

This week, our nation celebrated the Fourth of July. It was not only an opportunity for families and friends to get together and enjoy fireworks and barbecues, it was also a chance to reflect on this ...

More than 60 years later, then-President Jimmy Carter, carrying on the tradition of the yearly presidential proclamation on ...