As we celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday, test your civics knowledge and see how your score compares to others.

We are the residuum of two irreconcilable cultures, red and blue from the get-go, issuing from the Mayflower and a slave ship ...

Former White House speechwriter Mary Kate Cary discusses the critical decline in students' knowledge of defining American ...

It came at the price of more than 600,000 dead, and the assassination of our greatest president. Nineteenth Amendment It’s ...

From slavery to 9/11, the American experiment has been rocked by tragedies and injustices, some self-inflicted, others ...

Wood’s interpretation of American history was both forward-looking and painstakingly committed to the truth. The greatest tragedy of Irish history is almost never addressed in the Irish arts. Two ...

Harriet Jacobs, who escaped enslavement to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), created these three dolls for the children of writer Nathaniel Parker Willis around 1850-60. Private ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

“Don’t know much about history . . .,” goes the famous song. It’s an apt motto for the Common Core’s elementary school curriculum. And it’s becoming a serious problem. A 2014 report by the National ...

A slice of golf history merges with a piece of American history whenever the U.S. Open returns to one of its most storied ...

Sailing on a 109-passenger catamaran is an intimate way to see historic sites in Boston, Cape Cod and Rhode Island.