As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Michigan played an indirect but key role in the American Revolution.

The NBC News poll asked American adults which historical event they thought was the country’s biggest accomplishment in its ...

Oddly enough, the Civil War doesn't often get the Hollywood treatment as a direct subject. Whereas World War II or Vietnam ...

The words of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln remind us: The joy of being an American also carries the pang of ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

The Declaration of Independence established a principle that ultimately doomed slavery, even if it could not abolish the institution overnight.

The board voted to cut proposed lessons that would explain racial segregation, slave revolts and that African Americans were enslaved in the U.S. "because of the color of their skin." ...

Unlike traditional polls with multiple-choice options, respondents were asked an open-ended question: What is the greatest ...

In a similar vein, Vice President Vance has claimed that Americans who can trace their ancestry to those who fought in the ...

What a new Florida history course misses about the founders and slavery—and about the complexity of history itself.

*For generations, many Americans have described the United States as a “Christian nation.” The phrase appears in political ...

Nebraska wasn't in existence when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, but it would come to define and shape ...