Rachel is a dusty, hardscrabble spot, located in the Joshua tree desert just outside Area 51, that highly guarded Air Force ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

These days, he is right to scowl more than ever, because on top of watching Donald Trump trash precedent and common decency, ...

Irvin Weathersby Jr. explores America’s museums and monuments in his new book, “In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

The movies mentioned here are a strong starting point for anyone who wants a unique course in American history, but a deeper dive into American cinema will paint a larger, stranger, and more ...

A small team of archaeologists and anthropologists from the University of Wyoming, Michigan State University, and the Desert ...

Who was the first American to play in the Premier League? Which USMNT player has the most career Premier League appearances? If you’ve ever wondered about questions like the above, you’re in the right ...

Discovered in a thrift store, the historic docket lists incidents that occurred in the town of Casper, Wyoming, in 1904—including “reckless riding [of a horse]” and “keeping a house of ...