The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with ...

With Women’s History Month underway and International Women’s Day approaching on March 8, classrooms and museums across the United States will be focusing on famous women who shaped the world we live ...

By documenting the extraordinary role Black women have played in shaping Boston, the initiative preserves stories too often overlooked —or never recorded at all.

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the lives and struggles of early Filipino migrants Sam Vong, PhD In 2005, Antonio Somera, a Filipino American member of the Legionarios del ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative ...

Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the times throughout United States history when its citizens were most divided. When George Washington stepped down in 1796, he ...

Next Saturday’s rally could top 7 million people as Americans turn out against Trump amid the Iran war and ICE immigration crackdown. Next week’s “No Kings” nationwide protests, scheduled for Saturday ...

This ivory dress decorated with swirls of handmade fabric rose vines was designed by Ann Lowe. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black ...