The following is the transcript of an interview with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John ...

The Fourth of July reminds us of how precious and dearly bought our freedoms are -- and why they’re worth protecting. So let ...

As the U.S. celebrates 249 years of independence, we reflect on the milestones that shaped its democracy—an enduring ...

The United States is in the midst of a place-renaming moment. From the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, ...

Just off of Epps Bridge Parkway sits a small schoolhouse next to Chestnut Grove Baptist Church. On first glance, you wouldn’t ...

Two graves are placed on the tarmac at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport and have been there since the late 1800s ...

“Civil Rights and Workers Rights: An Exhibit of Hapeville’s Atlanta Assembly Plant” explores the plant’s integration by Black workers. “Of Men and Mules: Convict Leasing in Quarries of the New South” ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Gone With the Wind is racist and sexist. Why, then, should one read it? On its 89th anniversary, we explain, in 3 points and ...

To better understand history, we must understand how people thought and acted in the context of their times and the prevailing worldviews of that era.

The truth about Tule Lake, Alcatraz, Sutro Baths and hundreds of other sites could be erased under an executive order ...

From financial charts to maps of epidemics, a dazzling new exhibition at the Fondazione Prada shows how diagrams have shaped history. ByJonathon Keats, Contributor. Forbes contributors publish ...