A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

Paranoid about losing their majority status and the power it confers, white Americans keep backing Trump’s racist ...

“America First” risks becoming “America alone,” a reality that may extend to the Catholic Church in the United States. “America first” also means that U.S. Catholicism is more captive ...

Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, reenact the start of the American Revolution every year, but this year's festivities ...

The city witnessed a bitter controversy over the removal of a Confederate statue in Travis Park in 2017. It's been in storage ...

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Because there were so many of these paranormal reports happening, the church was actually featured in the Ghost Hunters ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For generations, Americans learned the same basic story about the end of the Civil ...