Consumer patriotism is the American way.

A cartoonist discusses his new show about the development of an American art form.

Three Texas authors expose the myth that the 1836 battle at a San Antonio mission was about freedom. It was about slavery

The gun that killed American Wild West outlaw Billy the Kid sold for more than $6 million at auction on Friday in Los Angeles, more than double the pre-sale estimate.

Author revisits troubled history of Filipino tribe brought to America in 1905.

End the drug war, stop the flow of U.S. firearms into Central America and curb the emissions driving climate disasters.

Ripple effects of the Klan’s takeover of Denver’s power structures in the mid-1920s are still felt, especially after the release by History Colorado last month of digital copies of the Klan’s…

Newly leaked documents show that US officials in 1958 cavalierly planned a nuclear strike on China over a handful of disputed islands. As Washington once more stokes tensions with China, it’s a reminder of the callous recklessness at the heart of US foreign policy.

For the first half of the 20th century, hungry travelers couldn’t do better than a roadside tea room

Scott Ellsworth talks about 'The Ground Breaking,' a new follow-up to "Death in a Promised Land," his pioneering 1982 exposé of atrocities in Tulsa.

Developers hired three Indigenous historians to help revamp the iconic educational computer game

In a new book, Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan examines the history of America's furious and fractious politics

Recently the U.S. marked the 160th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. The death toll was put at about 750,000 soldiers, including those who died from accident, disease and starvation. Most civil wars do not spring up overnight, and the American Civil War was no exception. After so many years this conflict continues to matter, America’s wounds have yet to heal and the nation is again divided between people who want a multiracial democracy in which every American is allowed ... https://balticword.com/new-u-s-civil-war-as-a-security-threat-for-the-baltic-region/

Los Angeles officials have announced an effort to return the valuable Manhattan Beach property to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce

Lisa Napoli’s “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie” follows four reporters who helped make the scrappy nonprofit into an American institution.

Only 20 years — to the day — after the first human ventured to space, Columbia became the first reusable space shuttle to take humans into orbit.

Discovery may explain escape of Capt Henry Every after murderous raid on Indian emperor’s ship

In the fall of 1853 Salvador de Castro Jr., a leading Cuban slave trader, traveled to Manhattan to arrange an expedition to West Central Africa

“The masher’s chief peculiarity is a profound faith in his dominion over the other sex.”Today—almost 150 years later—we’re realizing that the ...

As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.