[aggregation-styles] SF Gate San Francisco will rename 44 schools, including campuses named after former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The near-unanimous Monday vote by the San Francisco Board of Education, with only one dissenter, comes after years of debate — and some...
Do You Feel 'Harmed' by Historic George Washington Mural?
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco will spend up to $600,000 to paint over historical artwork at a public school depicting the life of George Washington, a mural once seen as educational and innovative but now criticized as racist and degrading for its depiction of black and Native American people. The...
Dinosaur Tracks Make Fresh Impression at Valley Forge Park
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — The national park on the site where George Washington and the struggling Continental Army endured a tough winter during the American Revolution boasts a new feature that's a couple of hundred million years old — dozens of fossilized dinosaur footprints discovered on rocks used to pave...
Star-Spangled Historian or Independence Day Dud? Take This Quiz.
Independence Day is filled with parades and picnics, fireworks, fairs and other festivities. Amid these celebrations, however, it’s important to remember that the Fourth of July commemorates a very important historical event: our nation’s declaration of its independence from Great Britain. By Robert M.S. McDonald The quiz below, from the...
Think You Know the U.S. Constitution? Take Our Quiz
By Jason W. Stevens InsideSources.com “The Constitution,” George Washington once said, “is the guide which I will never abandon.” Americans have continued to uphold that sentiment ever since. The Constitution of the United States has existed as “the supreme law of the land” for more than two...
Think You Know the U.S. Constitution? Take Our Quiz
By Jason W. Stevens InsideSources.com “The Constitution,” George Washington once said, “is the guide which I will never abandon.” Americans have continued to uphold that sentiment ever since. The Constitution of the United States has existed as “the supreme law of the land” for more than two...