Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...

The idea for a national museum of African American history and culture had been around for 100 years. When the project for ...

The word has become an epithet for garish, reckless growth — but to fix the housing crisis, the country needs more of it.

My grandparents landed on Ellis Island in 1902 with their 1-year-old son, my father, in their arms. Twenty-seven years later, ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

The museum’s inaugural programming in its new 14-storey wing chronicles and builds on the museum’s 78-year legacy ...

1986: An NBC radio traffic reporter dies when the helicopter she is riding in loses lift, hits a fence and crashes into the ...

Culinary historian Catherine Lambrecht will discuss the "History of American Pies" at the Vandalia Statehouse on April 5.

The upcoming docuseries, Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America, by National Geographic, takes viewers through one of the most devastating acts of terrorism in the history of the United States. The ...

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

This brewing conflict isn’t merely aesthetic. It represents fundamentally different conceptions of how architecture should ...