The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

A Christmas Carol is usually read as a Victorian morality tale about capitalism and compassion. Yet an autographed script ...

In the United States, birthright citizenship was written into the U.S. Constitution after the Civil War. Following the end of ...

An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with “religious excitement” and claimed they were ...

United States President Barack Obama announced an end to the Iraq War. This effectively brought an end to nine years of American troops being deployed in West Asia. Gone with the Wind, one of the ...

Read on to know the Quote of the Day by Abraham Lincoln, the quote’s meaning, Who is Abraham Lincoln, why he is famous, ...

How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

The death of Viola Fletcher, the last survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, underscores what Trump is attacking ...

Cole Escola's comedy provides an irreverently anachronistic take on Mary Todd Lincoln and her presidential husband. Read more on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

He believed slavery was a sin — and that violence was the only way to purge it. John Brown’s actions shocked the United States, sparked political chaos, and may have pushed the country closer to civil ...