LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 01: An immigrants rights supporter holds a sign reading 'Immigrants Make America Great' before marching downtown during a 'March for Dignity' on March 01, 2025 in Los ...

I was 3 years old the first time I mixed up Spanish and English. It would not be the last. It was 1975, and my family had recently migrated from Peru to Northern California. Shortly after our arrival, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday afternoon making English the official language of the U.S. This is ...

NMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. The "savage sounds" of Christian translation: missionaries confront the limits of universalism in early America -- Learning to write ...

Columnist, author, and linguist Richard Lederer spent about six months writing his latest book, “American History for Everyone.” That was a lot longer than it’s typically taken him to write his dozens ...

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 ...

Recently, the University of Florida’s African Studies Program hosted a “baraza” — or community meeting — featuring a Kenyan educator, Dr. Wandia Njoya. In her talk, “The Political Vernacular of ...

An exploration of the creative use of African American Language in performance genres. African American artistic forms like the Blues, Spirituals, Spoken Word, Preaching, Comedy and Hip Hop reveal a ...

No, here they are. . . . Last night I had the lecturer’s vocational nightmare: I dreamed that I had lost my notes. Since this is a series of lectures concerning American characteristics, I must be ...