What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

The Passover seder offers a lesson to America about the importance of sharing and teaching our national story to the next ...

“Powwows were adopted in the southwest when we couldn’t practise our culture in public ... we head north towards Navajo Nation, a 16-million-acre Native American reserve that spans the ...

The spirit of Karl Marx is alive and well and living in America. That's according to Illinois State University history ...

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote in the darkening days of December 1776, when the American ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

Trump is building walls. His trade policies obstruct not only the flow of goods but also the flow of ideas, contacts, technology and friendships as well. His immigration policies do the same. He ...

Historians, scholars and museum officials throughout Atlanta and the South fear the order could alter the way American history has been taught and digested for decades.

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats ...

The firing of the head of the National Security Agency was only the latest move that has eroded the country’s fortifications ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...