American history is filled with stories we’ve all been taught in school, stories so widely repeated that most of us accept them as fact. But over time, historians have uncovered new evidence, context, ...

American history is often presented in broad strokes, leaving out many nuances and details that can paint a richer picture of the past. Many common beliefs about life in early America, while widely ...

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s story is told, in Washington and beyond. By Jennifer Schuessler President ...

(RNS) — This February marks the 50th anniversary of the national commemoration of Black History Month, proclaimed by President Gerald Ford in 1976 as part of the bicentennial celebrations. But Black ...

America cannot afford to whitewash its past. Yet that is exactly what is at stake in the current review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To question whether slavery and ...

Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to ...

People rally to celebrate the reinstallation of a slavery exhibit at the historic President’s House Site, February 19, 2026, in Philadelphia. Credit: Joe Lamberti/AP Photo Philadelphia’s President’s ...