The notion that early America was divided strictly into rich and poor ignores the existence of a robust middle class, or as ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting revisionist history and divisive ideologies at our national parks and the Smithsonian museums. Whatever one thinks of the scope ...

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 ...