The mayor of New Orleans offers his reading list for anyone looking to better understand the real history of Confederate monuments
Resources at the African American History Museum deliver a wealth of opportunity for genealogical research
The dime novels and story papers entertained boys and launched a popular culture we still consume today
Seventy-five years ago, the Office for Price Administration wanted to limit the use of leather on the homefront
In some ways, he encountered a world unavailable to the enslaved. But in others, the journey was rife with danger and degradation
Self-driving cars were far from Ralph Teetor's mind when he patented his speed control device
The congresswoman donates to the Smithsonian artifacts tied to her first day as Speaker of the House in 2007
Although he was denied his seat in the House, Menard continued his political activism with the goal of uniting people across the Western Hemisphere
The new exhibition 'Americans' at the National Museum of the American Indian prompts a deeper dive for historic truths
History isn’t pretty and sometimes it is vastly different than what we’ve been taught, say Lonnie Bunch and Kevin Gover
Although she’s often overshadowed by her husband, Frederick Douglass, Anna made his work possible
While the virus disproportionately affected young men, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them
Released 50 years ago, the infamous report found that poverty and institutional racism were driving inner-city violence
Remembering the aspirations, struggles and accomplishments of women who served a century ago
Collecting the stories of women who forever changed the course of the American story
The brilliant female codebreakers of WWII were forgotten to history, but would that have happened had they been recognized with the same fervor as men?
On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked
"America's Sweethearts" are as dedicated to social service as they are to the Dallas Cowboys
How filmmaker Alex Gibney brought a documentarian’s eye to the story of the 9/11 attacks
In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy led a march through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama
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