The nonprofit initiative, called “In Pursuit,” has recruited former presidents, notable journalists, academics, and others to ...

The daring and desperate acts of rebellion from New York to the Caribbean shattered contemporary stereotypes of enslaved peoples and challenged the institution of slavery itself. In 1811, enslaved ...

December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before ...

Damage to the Philippine Legislative Building as a result of World War II. At the time, the Philippines was a U.S. colony. Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the United States and ...

This essay is excerpted from Sam Wineburg’s Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), out now from University of Chicago Press. History, for Zinn, is looked at from “the bottom up”: a view ...

After nearly three years of horrific, industrialized war raged across Europe and repeated German effrontery, the United States dropped its neutral stance and joined the fight in April 1917. ByK. M.

You can practically glean the history of America in the names of all 50 states. The story of the United States begins in the East and the South and is reflected in the origin of the names of the ...