Independence Day is about U.S. history. Specifically, when this land became the United States, which is a great story. Truth is usually stranger, and more interesting, than fiction, and in the 249 ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations, both at its headquarters in New York and ...

As the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, it might take a moment -- or more -- to remember why.

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” ...

Political strategist James Carville said that former President Joe Biden is one of the most tragic figures in modern American history because he refused to withdraw early enough from the election ...

They could use an existing code for a state-created introductory course on African American history for ninth and 10th graders and infuse it with the higher-level AP content.

What the first American novel was like Subtitled “The Triumph of Nature. Founded in Truth,” Brown's book is in many ways characteristic of the era, whether its epistolary format, its ...

South County High School is one of the Fairfax County schools piloting the new AP African American Studies course. WTOP’s Scott Gelman takes a closer look.

Women’s History Month is a reminder that women’s stories in US history should be fully integrated into the national narrative, beginning in high school classrooms, writes Elena Sheppard.

Women’s History Month is a reminder that women’s stories in US history should be fully integrated into the national narrative, beginning in high school classrooms, writes Elena Sheppard.