The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, "The Sutler's Tent"; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and ...

A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which would fulfill the promise of Reconstruction when ...

The House of Representatives has censured members of Congress for their actions and alleged misconduct nearly 30 times since 1832. When the House censures a member for their conduct, it is a ...

Youth voting rights were part of the post-war expansion of democratic inclusion and were realized most notably through the ...

Ken Burns' latest opus is solid storytelling. It also highlights the costliness of our ignorance about our history.

Sherrilyn Ifill delivered a lecture on reimagining American democracy, the role of the 14th Amendment of the U.S.

The BOP is part of the law enforcement arms of the Justice Department that includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation; ...

The professor of American history at Stanford University considers what might come next, in a guest essay for The World Ahead ...

The jaunty and absorbing new miniseries “Death by Lightning” posits that America had the closest thing to such a leader in ...

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

Trump has called museums too “woke.” But Republican lawmakers across the South see potentially lucrative opportunities with ...