Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Ada Ferrer has spent her career exploring history, identity and memory. In her new book, ...

As U.S. approaches milestone 250th anniversary, Hagley offers series of interpretive approaches that allow visitors to ...

Today, 61% of U.S. adults say religion is losing influence in American life, while 37% say it is gaining influence. There are sharp partisan divides on whether religion’s influence is good or bad and ...

City University of New York public system's material includes Yiddish jokes, posters for champion boxers, and student newspapers discussing same issues as today ...

When tourists see a statue of Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a 19th-century explorer, at a Grand Teton National Park visitor center this spring, a marker beneath it that used to be there will now be missing.

Human settlement of South America may have been more complex and dynamic than previously thought, new research suggests. Scientists have long suspected that humans settled South America in two ...

Washington, D.C. — Today, Common Cause and four individual members sued the Trump Administration to block the Department of Justice (DOJ) from illegally stockpiling millions of Americans’ confidential ...

The American Heart Association’s 2025 Adult Basic Life Support Guidelines build upon prior versions with updated recommendations for assessment and management of persons with cardiac arrest, as well ...

I invite you to turn back the clock to a pivotal moment in American history. The year is 1801. Thomas Jefferson has just defeated his archrival John Adams in a hotly contested presidential election ...

The horror and tragedy of mass shootings in American schools, churches and other public places capture the nation's attention. But these are only part of the larger violence of mass killings – deaths ...

Many people know about the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., that opened in 2016. A lesser-known fact is that the first national ...