Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

The Grammy Awards have long been criticized over a lack of diversity, with a history of artists of color, women, and rap and ...

Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...

It is hard to exaggerate the traumatic resonance of displacement and population transfer in collective Palestinian memory.

Barleycorn's, a restaurant, bar and live music venue, uses its marquee to express its sympathy for friends and family of the ...

Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico. Here's what that means legally and politically, according to experts.

Americans usually overestimate the amount of money that goes to foreign aid, pinning it between 8 and 25 percent of ...

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

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...

On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe ...

Fear is suffocating America, contributing to its spiritual and moral disintegration, and contributing to tribalism, where ...

Fatal crashes of commercial aircraft in the U.S. have become a rarity. The deadliest recent crash was in 2009 near Buffalo, N ...