Analysis: Hughes’s poem is a powerful assertion of black identity and equality.The narrator proclaims, “I, too, sing America,” insisting on his rightful place in the American fabric. The ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

How ‘America the Beautiful’ was born. To gather inspiration for her patriotic poem, scholar and social activist Katharine Lee Bates traveled the U.S.

Williams explores the spectrum of freedom in America—from responsible freedom (Fidus Freedom), which fosters a democratic society, to the belief freedom is the right to do anything one wants to ...

The seventh edition of “Freedom in the 50 States,” authored by William Ruger and Jason Sorens of the American Institute for Economic Research, has just been published by the Cato Institute.

"This is America, where we can do as we please, as long as it's my definition of freedom because most people can't be trusted with freedom," Fargo resident Neil Schloesser writes satirically.

The Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month in April 1996 to celebrate the role of poets and poetry in American culture. Since then, it's become one of the largest literary ...