The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

There has been a growing recognition that psychology, as a discipline, must engage more deeply with local contexts.

Guest speaker Chandra Manning, professor of U.S. history at Georgetown University, was featured at Daugherty-Palmer Commons ...

It is one of thousands of such heart-rending pleas that appeared in papers across the country, starting even before slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War and continuing as late as the ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...

If the writers and thinkers who support Donald Trump want to find their original source, they could look to the Jewish ...

This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the horrors of World War II. Eight decades later, ''Hold Strong,'' a work of ...

Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

Just in time for Black History Month, FamilySearch has announced expansion of a remarkable effort to gather genealogical information from cultures emphasizing oral transmission of family data.

LAKE GEORGE — In his new book, “Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon,” author Martin Klotz explores the life of the eponymous Robert Rogers.

Las Cruces Public Libraries hosts Black History Month events with a film screening and book discussions on African American ...