With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...

The United States is veering toward apartheid politics, the system of institutionalized racism in South Africa from 1948 ...

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, on the Boston Massacre, and how it changed relations between the colonists and ...

Some Europeans have cited Trump’s violent immigration crackdown and threats to annex Greenland as reasons for a boycott.

The January meeting marks the first since Fed Chair Jerome Powell confirmed the Department of Justice subpoenaed the central ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

George Washington, like many other Founding Fathers, fell short when it came to slavery. Removing educational panels cannot change that fact, even as Philadelphia must fight to restore the exhibit.

“Melania” will premiere Thursday at the Kennedy Center, where the Trumps are expected to walk the red carpet before the film opens in theaters worldwide Friday. They hosted a similar viewing at the ...

The country’s founding principles will survive only if the public remains willing to fight for them.

Jonathan Dekel-Chen’s son Sagui spent 498 days in captivity in Gaza after he was taken by Hamas from Nir Oz, a kibbutz in ...

Donald Trump took time out this week from dramatic events at home and abroad to reveal three new design concepts for his proposed “Independence Arch” in Washington DC. All three renderings resemble ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis., (WLAX, WEUX)-Ben Loomis is not the first Eau Claire native to hit the ski jump at the Olympics. In 1952 and ...