A history class unit designed by the Flossmoor Veterans’ Memorial organization may be going regional, with the curriculum set ...

Political science scholars emphasized the need to strengthen pro-democracy coalitions in a Wednesday event marking the launch ...

On September 15, the world observes International Day of Democracy 2025, focusing on protecting freedoms, promoting equality, and encouraging people to actively participate in decisions that affect ...

Voices and Votes is part of Museum on Main Street, a Smithsonian program that brings world-class exhibitions to small towns ...

Steve Inskeep is the featured guest at WGLT's Radio Faces dinner on Thursday, Oct. 30 at Illinois State University.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, a little-known Sovietologist and deputy director of the State Department’s Office of Policy Planning, published an article in a Washington journal, The National Interest, ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

Long before European governments or their colonies began to embrace "democracy," something far more democratic was widely practiced in the world's vast ungovernable spaces. Black Sam Bellamy's 1717 ...

In the Gilded Age of the millionaire, wealth signified ownership. The titans of old built railroads, monopolized oil, and bought their indulgences in yachts, mansions, and eventually, sports teams. A ...

John Spencer Camp Professor of Music Neely Bruce led Wesleyan faculty, students, local singers, instrumentalists, and ...

Those of us who have studied the history of Rome know that you can’t debauch a democratic republic overnight. Many Democrats think Trump did it by issuing some hundred Executive Orders, give or take, ...