What’s your favorite fun Wisconsin history fact? We asked the 325 candidates running for state and legislative office in 2026 ...

What’s your favorite fun Wisconsin history fact? We asked the 325 candidates running for state and legislative office in 2026 that question and others as a part of Wisconsin Watch’s 2026 voter ...

Alexis de Tocqueville is almost never discussed as a reporter. Instead, we shelve him among political philosophers, ...

How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers entrenched the idea that the United States was chosen by God ...

Nebraska wasn't in existence when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, but it would come to define and shape ...

In tandem with America's semisquincentennial, we asked historians, authors and other experts to propose four hidden facts ...

President Donald Trump has been warning recently that communism will pose a threat to the U.S. if Democrats win in the ...

Many of America’s most popular founding myths aren’t factual. But other times, the truth is stranger than fiction.

Many of America's most popular founding myths aren't factual. But other times, the truth is stranger than fiction.

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...

Greg Jackson spent three years staring into the dark corners of American history and came out the other side with something ...

"To prove this," he wrote, "let facts be submitted to a candid world."  In this June 30, 2020, photo, a man walks in front of the Declaration House in Philadelphia, where Thomas Jefferson drafted the ...