A recent editorial was accompanied by a photo of a formerly enslaved man in Louisiana displaying whipping scars on his back during the Civil War. Made in May 1863 and widely published two months later ...

For the first time ever, U.S. players will receive a stipend, but Europeans still won’t.

From the Declaration of Independence, to railroads, to the rise of conglomerates: Here are 51 seminal moments in the ...

A group of citizen historians, alarmed by Donald Trump's targeting of Smithsonian museums, are on a mission to document their ...

This action followed an April executive order from President Donald Trump titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to Our American History,” that emphasized a positive view of history in the form of ...

Traditional journalists complain that he is an advocate—the same criticism Woodward and Bernstein faced during Watergate.

Long before the Trump Administration's efforts to mute the history of U.S. slavery, Congress banned discussion of the topic.

Although not widely known in American history, she left an indelible mark on the nation’s capital as a savvy lobbyist and ...

In recent years, the issue of identity, specifically the rights of transgender or trans persons, has become a political ...

And an all-star group of journalists, scholars, “New York Times Magazine” staff folks had come together ... The National Museum of African-American History and Culture, man, that place would be so ...

A poster-size version of the front page of the very first issue of this magazine hangs in the lobby of Springer Nature’s New ...

The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has issued a warning about the hammerhead worm. The hammerhead worm is originally from Asia, but has been seen in America since the early 1900s.