Of the seven winners for this year's Voice of Democracy essay contest, six of them are Braden River High School students, and ...

Six Lawrence County students, who were winners of the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ Voice of Democracy and Patriot’s Pen essay ...

Walter Paciga Post 4712 and Auxiliary recently held Voice of Democracy, Patriots Pen and Teacher of the Year contests.

The deadline is approaching for high school students from Bloomingdale, Roselle or Medinah to enter this year's VFW Voice of Democracy Scholarship Competition. Local students must submit their entries ...

University of Delaware senior Julia Mack has very clear memories of voting in the 2008 presidential election while surrounded by a loud chorus of arguments between supporters of John McCain and those ...

Wyatt Perkins, a homeschool sixth-grader in Mayville, and Hannah Vaagen, a junior at Devils Lake High School, were honored at an event hosted by VFW Post 1874 on Saturday, April 3 in Grand Forks.

The plaint heard during the French Revolution is still widely applicable today. But perhaps even more pertinent would be a variation: “Oh, democracy, what travesties are perpetrated in thy name!” ...

Democracy promotion is much in the news these days. The strenuous effort by the United States and its coalition partners to carry off a democratic transformation of Iraq has provoked a fierce, global ...

Following the events of Jan. 6, 2021 — when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol building in an effort to interrupt the certification process of the 2020 presidential election — experts began to ...

SURING - Sophia Lally opened her Voice of Democracy contest essay by describing what she imagined Thomas Jefferson was feeling as he began to write the Declaration of Independence. Her third such ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The National Student Essay Competition offers students in grades 6 through 8, grades 9 through 12, and those at universities and colleges an opportunity to reflect on ...