Paul Andrew Hutton’s ‘Undiscovered Country’ and Peter Cozzen’s ‘Deadwood’ examine the nation through separate lenses.

J. Michael Luttig is a Republican-appointed former federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

The federal government shutdown, now the second-longest in US history, is on day 34. How long was longest on record? Could ...

Mike Johnson accused the mainstream press of allowing Democrats to get away with the "most extreme example of gaslighting" in ...

From heartbreaking losses to iconic wins, the Arizona Cardinals have built a long history on Monday Night Football.

New evidence from ancient stone tools suggests the First Americans may have sailed from Asia over 20,000 years ago, ...

Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Kevin Gover, Class of 1978, under secretary for museums and culture at the Smithsonian, and Terence Tao, a 1996 graduate alumnus, ...

This costly conflict spanned generations—and its brutal legacy endures. But why did the bloodshed go on for so long?

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

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...

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

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