This year, we celebrate the most significant milestone in our Nation’s history: 250 glorious years of American independence. From the very beginning, our country has been blessed with countless black ...

The author George Orwell said this about history: “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” By definition, history is the study of ...

Person of the Year: Ben Bernanke? He's the Saddam Hussein of economics. He's one of the "fat cats" that the president says causes the problem. He was on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve ...

The president’s shameful “skinny budget” would decimate our parks. We must continue to defend the integrity of our historic sites. In August 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before an audience ...

Saturday marks the start of Black History Month, a time to honor Black people and the Black experience. And while Black History celebrations have been held for decades, some people may not realize how ...

Two-thirds of our national parks are historic and cultural sites, yet the role the National Park Service plays in protecting and interpreting our history is often overlooked and largely underfunded.

When Donald Trump recently tweeted a dark warning of a “Civil War like fracture in this Nation” were he to be impeached, it was further evidence of his Administration’s troubled relationship with that ...