As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

The authors are writing in response to the Trump administration's criticism of a “widespread effort to rewrite history” with the goal to create “societal divides.” ...

Books & the Arts / A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

The African American history museum is singled out in ... s even more important now to take students on trips to museums like it. “There is a vigorous effort to erase this history and to ...

Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean ...

to develop a “patriotic education” that rescued American history from identity-driven revision that emphasizes critical thinking over patriotism. Like the “1776 Report,” the current ...

She would yell things like, “Never, ever ... Burroughs also insisted that students learn African-American history. As she declared in a 1934 speech: “I want you to take the struggles, the ...

At the National Museum of American History one day last July ... archaeologists keep turning up fossilized bits of what look like doughnuts in the middens of prehistoric Native American settlements.