Although it was only minted from 1948 to 1963, the Franklin half dollar is a hot item with collectors. This 50-cent piece honors founding father Benjamin Franklin. Made of 90% silver, the coin is ...

Sam Houston and Westlake — returned to the high school state volleyball tournament Thursday at the Cajundome. While Sam ...

The award-winning filmmaker, who received the National Constitution Center’s Liberty Medal this year, has been visiting ...

Beginning in 1775, leaders of the 11 colonies began issuing currency for the entire group. The first notes were authorized on ...

On Wednesday, November 13, the Genealogy Club of Newtown will hold a virtual meeting at 7 pm, with speaker Shannon ...

Dating from 1784, the letter was written after America had achieved independence, but at a time when it wasn't clear whether ...

Voters are heading to the polls at a moment when honest, independent news coverage risks being drowned out by partisan voices ...

Ross and Lea Goldsmith showed up at the Gahanna Library to vote with their toddler, Hildy, dressed in her patriotic finest: a ...

Instead, I’ve been poring over Theodore Draper’s A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. The 1996 volume looks back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and yet that distant history rhymes with ...

Staring out from the $100 bill, looking more like a wise old uncle than a Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin seems an easy ...

For over 235 years the American people have chosen a republic and over time they have broadened the electorate into a ...

By Robert Johnsen I am frightened. I’m afraid that we, as Americans, are on the edge of a paradigm shift. We are told every four years that this is the most important presidential election in American ...