Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of ...

Before Thoreau's "life in the woods," there was Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who won his freedom serving in the ...

CAMBRIDGE] Power is the ability to get others to do what you want. That can be accomplished by coercion (“sticks”), payment ( ...

Ideological loyalists such as Stephen Miller and Project 2025’s primary pen, Russell Vought, now O.M.B. director, seized a ...

The NEH is among the most reliable sources of funding for history documentaries. DOGE-led grant terminations have filmmakers ...

Memorial Day traces its earliest origins to the courageous efforts of African American soldiers who fought valiantly in the ...

The Battle of Chickamauga was fought for three days in September of 1863 during the American Civil War. It was the Union’s most significant defeat in the Western Theater and the second battle with the ...

You probably know about the battles at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. But the War of Independence also was shaped in ...

Pope Leo XIV's genealogy can be traced back to Haiti, where his grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. His census records tell ...

Pennsylvania and Ireland have had a long and rich historical association. It stretches back to the era of William Penn in the ...

Lindbergh’s 33-hour trans-Atlantic flight in May 1927 changed the world forever, marking the dawn of global aviation. It ...

After the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia’s Albemarle County school system set out to combat racism by teaching about discrimination, resistance and resilience ...