A new exhibition documents American photography's first 70 years, exploring the US during a period of immense social, ...

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

As a rapper and scholar, I have experienced and seen misleading hip-hop stories that highlight an impulse to inaccurately document the ... hop resists the ways American history often excludes ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the ...

Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s ... Making of Modern America, draws on newly declassified documents to tell these ...

All over the country, cities and towns are going all out for next year’s semiquincentennial party. Here are our 9 picks for where to go—and how to start celebrating now. Cities and towns all ...

If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for ...

A new exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) explores the Commonwealth’s important ... view it early starting Thursday. The museum has been planning for America’s 250th ...

Newly unredacted documents mostly shed light on C.I.A. sources ... were working for the C.I.A. The new information suggests that early in the Cold War, U.S. leaders were concerned that the agency ...

Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America, draws on newly declassified documents ...

A question posed by another researcher really struck Caroline Collins in her work on the way the public thinks about and ...