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

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

The Sparks are retiring the jersey of the Illinois native and Tennessee All-American who helped define the WNBA game as a ...

6. The River Is Waiting (Oprah’s Book Club) by Wally Lamb (S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books) 7. Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick by Kendall Shores & Meredith Lavender (Random House Publishing Group) 8. The ...

Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the ...

According to the audit: “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos is an unbiased, factual textbook designed to accommodate the growing number of Mexican-American or Chicano History Courses.

Libraries and archives at universities across the nation catalog and steward the donated papers of members of Congress. But that historically significant work is now in jeopardy.

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 ...

The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States (which keeps trying to hoard the name for itself). The British historian ...

A judge ordered the hip-hop producer detained until his sentencing, citing his history of domestic violence. He was found not ...

Consider this American History 101It's harder to find accurate cinematic depictions of the 1800s, which may be out of shame; certainly, the issues of Indian removal and the expansion of slavery ...

Robert Colescott was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1925. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like HoMA, Honolulu Museum of Art. Numerous key galleries ...