1+ hour, 57+ min ago  (731+ words) In honor of the semiquincentennial anniversary of our great nation, we decided to break from our regularly scheduled programming. Since its founding (and, indeed, since well before our formal founding), ingenuity and innovativeness have been pillars of the American character....

2+ hour, 49+ min ago  (1704+ words) Americans created airplanes, computer chips, the internet and automobile assembly lines over 250 years of industry " but they've also invented unheralded gems such as refrigerators, barcodes, washing machines and Doppler radar. Historians say Saturday's anniversary of the country's founding offers a…...

5+ hour, 17+ min ago  (135+ words) The Las Vegas Sphere is celebrating 250 years of American innovation in a striking display ahead of this special July 4 weekend. Footage taken by X user @Mic_Vegas Sphere on June 29 shows the mix of graphics and footage, titled Nation of Wonder. The…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago  (1126+ words) An age of innovation Sandusky Register...

11+ hour, 6+ min ago  (470+ words) This story originally appeared in the January 20, 2015 edition of The Times and Democrat. The late Dr. Hilla Sheriff received her early education in Orangeburg and went on to become "the Grand Dame of South Carolina Public Health." Sheriff was born…...

10+ hour, 51+ min ago  (1024+ words) We love hearing our national anthem played. To see the American Olympic athletes win gold and stand on the podium to receive their medals makes our hearts swell with pride. To watch an American president place his hand over his…...

17+ hour, 1+ min ago  (371+ words) The Ferris wheel is just one of the many inventions that debuted when the World's Fair in Chicago opened on May 1, 1893. Rice University history professor and CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley discusses that day in history with host Scott Tong....

21+ hour, 32+ min ago  (539+ words) No one is lying, exactly. The U. S. did refine many of these things. They were commercialized and scaled up, and in some cases, improved. But refinement is not invention, and in this case, the two have been quietly swapped for a…...

21+ hour, 58+ min ago  (704+ words) When President Theodore Roosevelt took time away from leading the country, he liked to ride horses, birdwatch and wrestle his kids on the White House lawn. "Sometimes I'd take off for a long tramp with just one aide and a…...

23+ hour, 29+ min ago  (522+ words) (The Center Square) " Two hundred and fifty years ago, a brave group of risk-takers believed that liberty was worth the cost and declared their future would rely not on the rule of a distant king but instead on the courage…...