Trump has upended the national tradition of claiming, however hypocritically, that foreign intervention is not about power or ...

Black Americans. What began in 1926 has grown into an overall cultural observance of Black History in February ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, about the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America.

For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, 56 men met in the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to commit treason against the most powerful empire on Earth. Representing 13 colonies of that empire, ...

The history of tariffs in America is a long one. In fact, tariffs have been a part of the American fabric since the early days of the Republic. The first tariff legislation was introduced by James ...

This wonderful HBO miniseries stars Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney as John and Abigail Adams, the power couple of the ...

Economy / Books & the Arts / In Make Your Own Job, Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost. Nick Juravich What is a “work ethic”? In its ...

Jettly reports on the evolution of Air Force One, highlighting its role in shaping private aviation standards and ...

From the founding of the republic, the underlying philosophy from those in power seems to have been one of white supremacy.