The less important English becomes in America, the less American it becomes as well. On Tuesday, Democrat Ismail Mohamed was elected as an Ohio state representative. The Somali immigrant prioritized ...

When my maternal grandfather, Israel Whitman, came to the U.S. from czarist Russia, he wouldn’t allow Yiddish to be spoken in his home. He knew that English was the key to success and believed he had ...

The story of American English is how the nation’s different groups have made the language their own — but it’s also about the way it connects Americans. The latest book by the Mexican American author ...

Historian Peter Mancall says New English Canaan is “not very long” and “not very well written,” but holds immense value in what it says about the nation’s founding. Illustration by Meilan Solly / ...

English is America’s official language. But, is it translating for everyone? People in Michigan, Texas, Tennessee and Washington, D.C. contemplate President Trump's executive order establishing ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language. Our Nation’s historic governing documents, including the Declaration of Independence ...

IN 1789, Noah Webster declared ‘the pure English pronunciation in Great Britain and New England’ to be ‘exactly the same in both.’ Ever since that time those who undertake the difficult task of ...

About US is a forum to explore issues of race and identity in the United States. Sign up for the newsletter. Immigrants and poets. My mom was one, I became the other. Though mass media rarely clumps ...

Welcome to the Vowels In America (VIA) research project, a joint effort by sociolinguists from the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Oregon to better understand the relationship between ...

English has become the dominant language of science in Latin America, with the use of Portuguese among Brazil-based authors in particular declining, according to a new study. According to the report ...