A recent episode of the Apathy Is Not an Option podcast unpacks what the past tells us about our attempts to build an ...

Explore films, interviews, articles, image galleries and more for an in-depth look at notable female figures in American history.

On October 13, 1775, America’s Continental Congress passed a resolution to establish the present-day U.S. Navy with a “swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns and a proportionable number of ...

Re “Trump’s Politics Are Changing How History and Civics Are Taught” (news article, Nov. 7): As the historian John Hope Franklin once observed, “The writing of history reflects the interests, ...