Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

IT IS NO LESS THAN THIS IDEA OF AMERICA, this creed, this soul of America that we now see and feel slipping away. And yet, ...

President Donald Trump has begun his America First overhaul of government, signing scores of executive orders in his first ...

The term "military-age men" is used to describe migrants from China and Africa but experts say working-age men is a fairer ...

A bright, clear Presidents’ Day in Washington: a perfect moment in time and place to say what makes the best and worst of presidents. For historians, the pattern is indelible. The American people show ...

Judy Woodruff has traveled the country exploring the roots of America’s divisions over race, religion, culture, wealth and ...

The Justice Department’s second-in-command demanded that a judge dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric ...

Sen. Bill Cassidy has claimed the maternal death rate in Louisiana isn’t as bad if you don’t count Black women.

Kings and Generals' animated historical documentary series continues with a new deep dive into the American Civil War, ...

In a world increasingly shaped by secularism and scientific empiricism, a paradox emerges: the enduring belief that history has direction, meaning and purpose—a secularized form of providentialism.

The renaming of Fort Bragg now remembers a toxic gas handler who served in World War II, Private First Class Roland Bragg.