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 ...

NEW YORK (AP ... author of a Bunker Hill book, “The Whites of Their Eyes,” which came out in 2011. “But they can say that Gettysburg,D-Day, and Bunker Hill were battles.” Bunker Hill, Lockhart adds, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — As the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, it might take a moment — or more — to remember why. Start with the very name. “There’s something ...

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.

In AP US History, women’s suffrage, for example, is taught as just one of many movements encapsulated in the Progressive Era. The end result is a general devaluing of women’s histories ...