Speakers stand before a podium, wearing a traditional graduation cap and robe, and offer graduates life lessons and inspirational words as they enter the next phase of life. But today, speaking at a ...

Today, we leave with more than a degree, we leave with the ability to decide what kind of impact we want to have on the ...

A 2003 essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. about the American flag and how criticism of American is patriotic.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats were a series of approximately 30 evening radio addresses delivered between 1933 and ...

Tree clearing began in the section of FDR Park in South Philadelphia that is slated to become multi-use fields, a playground and basketball courts. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) A lawsuit filed by 11 South ...

An accomplished and maybe-famous person is probably giving a similar address right now to a sea of graduation caps spread ...

It is graduation season across the country. A time when we turn the page to the next chapter of life for the tens of ...

Teddy Roosevelt emphasized during a 1903 visit to the University of Wyoming that higher education is a cornerstone of ...

A stack of folded-up speech notes — and intervention from a medical team in Chicago — helped save President Theodore Roosevelt’s life, but not his effort to win a third term, 114 years ago.

Charles Lindbergh was a global icon, an American patriot, and a man of unimpeachable courage. For that reason, Lindbergh was ...

WASHINGTON — Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) both announced that Mayor Muriel Bowser will be the 2026 commencement speaker. On Thursday, Howard University ...