Saturday, April 12 will mark the 160th anniversary of my ancestors learning about their freedom. On April 12, 1865, union ...

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President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

Smithsonian writer Andrew Lawler about these lesser-known histories.A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” and to listen to past episodes about a baseball field resurrected in ...

The CBP One smartphone app launched in January 2023 and through December 2024 was used to admit more than 936,500 people ...

It is no wonder we witness daily the excesses of the executive branch of government with so many Americans incapable of ...

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said in a Monday op-ed that President Trump “has broken the cardinal rule in ...

On the other hand, he is actively rewriting economic history to convince Americans that everything they’ve been taught is ...

The director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, Kevin Young, has gone on personal ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker started his record-breaking filibuster on the Senate floor on Monday with a speech criticizing the ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), ...

51 percent of us are women," Babcock said. "And women have been present in every moment of American history. "It’s really important for us to tell a complete American history, one that features ...