By Ken Burns and David Leonhardt Produced by Jillian Weinberger President Trump’s threats to democracy have prompted a number ...

Donald Trump isn’t the first president to take authoritarian steps. The danger is that the electorate might come to accept ...

Annie Polland argues that studying our humble roots teaches us what really makes American history exceptional.

The June 2008 cover of the Washington Post Magazine featured reporter Liza Mundy’s article “The Amazing Adventures of Supergrad.” Under this title ran the teaser, “The most sophisticated, accomplished ...

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people joined a rally on May 3 to show support for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the wake of threats by the Trump administration and others ...

A delegation of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Western U.S. Central Committee on Tuesday visited the Armenian American ...

People applying for U.S. citizenship will now take a revised civics test with more questions about American history and government. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Wednesday that the ...

CHIP JACOBS, WRITER: It's hard for us to imagine what it was like that day in July 1943. It appeared quite suddenly. CHRISTOPHER WELLS, HISTORIAN: Thick, dark, silvery blue clouds descended over the ...

A huge swath of the American people – especially liberals, Democrats and voters over the age of 50 – had no idea until Wednesday night who Charlie Kirk was. But all Americans know what his death in ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - This week, the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office made history by welcoming its first African American Chief Deputy, McArthur Holmes, in its 293-year history. The Chatham County ...

A suspect accused of vandalizing the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History on two occasions has turned himself in, police said. Police said they are not revealing the suspect's name, or ...

(RNS) — The show's depiction of hood-wearing, sinister Mormons slaughtering emigrants, US Army troops and Shoshone people all within a few days is a sensationalized fabrication intended to 'entertain.