Why did the Founding Fathers decide to use the bald eagle in the Great Seal of the U.S.? Eva Diaz, associate professor of art history at Pratt University, explains the cultural and allegorical ...

The bald eagle became the United States national bird on Dec. 24, 2024, approximately 242 years after most Americans assumed it already was our national bird. In 1782 the bald eagle was placed on the ...

The Great Seal of the United States is a powerful national emblem, symbolizing the country’s sovereignty and authority. Used to authenticate important documents, such as treaties and commissions, it ...

The keepers of the Great Seal of the United States, the familiar emblem on the back of the $1 bill, want you to know what it is not. The seal is not a sign that a group known as Freemasons runs the ...

Most people know the Great Seal of the United States, which features an eagle and the national motto, "E pluribus unum," or "out of many, one." Many people do not realize that every state in the ...

My uncle, the eminent sculptor Theodore Roszak, offered a cheeky play on the Great Seal of the United States, presciently anticipating the president’s restoration of the Department of War and effort ...

The Great Seal of the United States, featuring an eagle, is on the back of the dollar bill. Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress, submitted his design for the eagle on June 20, 1782, ...

Here is something you may not know. It occupies a good three pages of Jack E. Davis's book The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird. Benjamin Franklin did not like the bald eagle and ...