The White House sent a letter to the Smithsonian Tuesday unveiling plans to conduct a review of museums and exhibits in ...

The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed Rewrite Artists, historians and filmmakers alike have been guilty of creating a mythologized version of the U.S. expansion to the west ...

During his private tour of the NMAAHC during his first term, President Donald Trump said it served as “a meaningful ...

The Shocking Savagery of America’s Early History Bernard Bailyn, one of our greatest historians, shines his light on the nation’s Dark Ages ...

What do Martha the last passenger pigeon, a fragment from Plymouth Rock and Julia Child’s kitchen have in common? Each of these objects tells an important part of America’s story. These and 98 other ...

The Journal of American History remains the leading scholarly publication and journal of record in the field of American history and is well known as the major resource for the study, investigation, ...

Given that France assisted America in its early development in so many areas, it seemed strange that I was traveling to Paris to show that America has Black General Officers in its military.

What Do Chinese Students Think of American History? When a Fulbright scholar arrived in China to teach U.S. history, she encountered students who interpreted the subject in surprising ways.

In her groundbreaking trilogy, “Women Scientists in America,” she told the stories of numerous accomplished but largely invisible women.