Historians and observers have accused the Trump administration trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign ...

The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ...

“It’s not enough to declare a month of recognition when the systems we rely on to repair justice are not ...

President Trump’s attempts to uplift traitors and racists are the latest in a centuries-old campaign against history by those ...

The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the ...

PBS' four-part documentary on the Black and Jewish experience in America, presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines how ...

Philadelphia sued the Trump administration after it directed the Park Service to rip out a memorial to slavery. Elsewhere, ...

The Smithsonian Institution is restoring a gunboat that sank in a 1776 Revolutionary War battle. As part of a series with the ...

Talk about good timing. Antisemitism, an American Tradition, a powerful new book by American University professor Pamela Nadell, has just been published. The book comes at a time when certain sectors ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

A fuller exposure to Latin American history would include, among other things, lessons about neoliberal capitalism, which has long shaped the politics, economies and societies of Latin America. This ...