The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history. By Masha Gessen.

Before we retaliate over drone and oil tanker attacks, take a look at all the times we've been duped. By Robert W. Merry.

In June 1969, a fire on Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River—the last in a series of big blazes spanning decades—spurred the government to make sweeping environmental changes that altered the course of the country. By Vince Guerrieri.

Juneteenth isn’t the "other" Independence Day, it is the Independence Day. By Jameelah Nasheed.

Mary Bowser risked execution to infiltrate Jefferson Davis’s Richmond household. But she was never caught.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Grant's role in reconstructing the USA after the Civil War

While not a 100% quack,nonetheless, Dr. Kellogg engaged in some rather questionable medical practices.

The voices of five men and four women, once held in human bondage, interviewed in Alabama in 1937.

He was Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the first airstrike against the Japanese homeland, an event that buoyed Americans still reeling from Pearl Harbor.

Disputed remains were the right height and age and showed injuries consistent with the general’s life. There was just one catch: “The skeleton looked very female.”

The opening shot of the Civil War was fired on Fort Sumter, 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861.

Can it be a Detroit spa destination?

In a revelatory trilogy, Professor Davis, called “one of the most influential historians of his generation,” placed slavery at the center of American history.

In thick woods and swamplands and on small river islands, they bided their time. By Keri Leigh Merritt.

A monument at West Point can help Americans rediscover a leader whose moral example is much needed today.

Angela’s arrival in Jamestown in 1619 marked the beginning of a subjugation that left millions in chains

Historians have long debated Lee’s place in American history, and that battle continues today.

Against the odds, historian Christy Coleman merged two Richmond institutions, forging a new approach to reconciling with the nation's bloody past

It would be two years before the first armed American destroyers sailed for Europe. By Joanna Scutts.

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism… By Angelo Guisado.

The officer stood over the freshly exhumed grave with a pencil and ledger in his hands. He told others to search the remains as he struggled to decipher the crude etching on a weath…

Sharpshooters wore camo and hefted state-of-the-art rifles with longer, flatter trajectory 

The U.S. Treasury will not introduce a redesigned $20 bill picturing escaped slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman next year as planned By Makini Brice.

In the wake of a horrific mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, in which a young white man with an apparent history of racism is accused of killing nine black people during Bible study at a church, many are calling for the removal of the Confederate flag on statehouse grounds in South Carolina's capital. But the politics are tricky for Republicans in this conservative state. Last year, six in 10 South Carolinians said the flag should stay.

During the Jim Crow era, traveling in the United States for African-Americans was difficult and often dangerous. Motels and restaurants didn’t have to serve you if they didn’t want to. “Sundown towns”—places where it was unsafe to be black at night—dotted the nation’s geography. If you were driving around the country, the only way to know if you were safe was by word-of-mouth.

Founded in 1790, the Patent Office aimed to put innovation and entrepreneurship within reach of every citizen. Now, 225 years later, protesters say an out-of-touch system is doing more the opposite.

On August 6, 1945, Eugene Cotton, a Lieutenant in the US Army Air Corps, wrote to his fiancée from his posting in California. Cotton was one of hundreds of thousands who, having left service in the European theater of the war, were slated to take part in a massive invasion of the Japanese islands in late 1945 and early 1946. He was 23 years old, a recent college graduate with a degree in physics, and had undergone training at both MIT and Berkeley before joining the Army...

Drought conditions in the Western part of the United States have allowed an old Nevada town once submerged deep beneath Lake Mead to emerge from its watery grave. Founded in 1865, St. Thomas was initially settled by Mormons drawn by Muddy Creek, a tributary that flows into the Colorado River, located 22 miles away. When the Mormons left in 1871, outlaws — including horse thieves and cattle rustlers— moved in. The town was eventually settled by people attracted by the region’s prime farming land.

There's a map making the rounds on Facebook right now, which is being shared as if it's a map of pre-contact North America. You can find it here. But it doesn't show pre-contact North America at all — it's trying to show what the boundaries of the First Nations & Inuit would look like in 2015 if contact had never happened. And it's not even an accurate representation of that alternative history: the borders it uses are borders that were formed, in part, as a result of European contact.

Oliver Hazard Perry was born August 23, 1785 and also died on August 23, 1819 from Yellow Fever. He was 34 years old.

   An Infographic Overview on The History of Freight Shipping.

Samuel N. Hanmer, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Springfield Museums, said securing the Fairfield St. property is "just the beginning" as possible next steps are explored.

It’s little more than a day off for shopping now, but when Labor Day was first observed, it wasn’t all fun and back-to-school sales.

America's railroads -- and with them, its economy -- nearly ground to a halt in 1894 because one of the wealthiest men in American history decided to grow his own fortune on the backs of hungry workers.