( Editor’s Note: This column is part of a monthly series called “The Experiment Continues” that looks at the past 250 years of ...

One Bluebonnet lesson instructs students to memorize the order in which the Bible says God created the universe.

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

The "Abolition Acre" self-guided walking tour was recently established by the nonprofit Beacon Hill Scholars to raise ...

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

Collective political education and organizing become particularly important during periods when the government is cracking ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

There is a phenomenon in some sectors where science is seen as beyond social influence – that scientific fact is inherently “objective” and beyond social influence. To a degree this is true: there is ...

Personal accounts from four superintendents about how their relationship to religion informs their leadership thinking and actions in public school communities.