On the second floor of the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage, children sang the Alaska Flag songs, Junior ROTC students marched ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn ...

In today’s newsletter, I’ll give you seven highlights, with help from charts by Albert Sun, a graphics editor at The Times.

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen countries to form a multi-ethnic society on ...

his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court. In what is perhaps the most infamous case in its history, the court decided that all people of African ancestry -- slaves as ...

Historians believe that people from the southern African ... There are also hopes that this history will draw the United States and Angola closer together diplomatically. When President Biden ...