William Galvin, secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is launching an exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently renamed Fort Liberty, North Carolina, choosing the name Fort Bragg. Not that Bragg, ...

The reality of what I held in my hand began to overwhelm me. This soldier might have risked his life to save the lives of ...

On February 26, 1775, residents of Salem, Massachusetts, banded together to force the British to withdraw from their town ...

Opening a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s The Reckoning, a probing examination of political agents and structuring conditions behind the late overthrow of slavery in the American South, Cuba and Brazil ...

This weekend, we celebrate the birthday of the author of that victory, Gen. George Washington, born in Virginia on Feb. 22, ...

Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger asks a question no current Republican politician appears willing to say out loud ...

Lafayette’s Bicentennial Farewell Tour will end in June when, just as he did during his tour 200 years ago, he heads into ...

Museum leaders are working to connect people today to the events of 1776. They’re confident they can, and will.

President Donald Trump commemorated Black History Month at the White House alongside golfer Tiger Woods weeks after signing ...

There is a disconnect between what President Donald Trump is saying to honor Black History Month and what much of his government is doing to forget it exists.

We can begin with slavery, since that’s where it began for enslaved people in America in 1619, when the first enslaved African set foot on these shores more than 100 years before this country became ...