Editor’s Note: All photos and observations were taken and made before Post-tropical cylcone Sandy swept through New York on Monday. Wrapping the tip of Roosevelt Island that points out to the sea, the ...

A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...

The American Flag flies near one of the entrances to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stonycreek Township in Somerset County. (Tim Lambert/Pennsylvania Capital-Star) As America approaches the midway ...

AAPG copy Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment. Contents Finding Common Ground / Laurie Norton Moffatt -- Norman Rockwell: The People's Painter / Stéphane Grimaldi -- We Are All Neighbors / Jan ...

"The primary concern of any government dominated by the humane ideals of democracy is the simple principle that in a land of vast resources no one should be permitted to starve." —Franklin D.

Decades late, FDR memorial park is ready to open on island in NYC's East River This Aug. 24, 2012 photo provided by FDR Four Freedoms Park LLC, shows the New York City memorial park, honoring ...

Freedom of Speech / Linda Eades (Southern Methodist University) -- Freedom from Want / Matthew Jones (London School of Economics) -- Freedom of Religion / Tisse Wenger (Yale University) -- Freedom ...

In 1941, during a difficult time in our nation’s history, President Roosevelt assured the public that as Americans we are entitled to four freedoms — freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom ...