American history

"We are in touch with the federal government and lobbyists to help educate them that the Indian mission system didn't start with Carlisle," the chief said.

"I heard a loud boom," 9-year-old witness Will Keefer said. "I looked out the window and there was a car stuck halfway through the house."

What both sides should demand instead is expansion, not restriction, of the history we teach—with a deeper, richer perspective on our republic's place in the world.

The nation and symbols that represent freedom and opportunity to so many are being painted as divisive and hateful by ill-intentioned revisionists.

This Fourth of July provided some unexpected perspective on the ferocious fights currently raging over the teaching of American history and values.

The couple found that two of the four fireplaces in their 19th-century house were not connected to chimneys.

The rare document is one of the last six copies of the Declaration of Independence that remains in private hands.

Historians have questioned the origins of this early American flag and the evidence of Ross' creation is considered "compelling, though not conclusive."

Get in the Independence Day spirit by watching this list of movies set during the 4th of July weekend.

Juneteenth can be an appropriate and meaningful supplement to observance of July 4th, without replacing the parades, barbecues and fireworks that have illuminated American summers for more than two centuries.

The clip was captured in 1963 by a driver, before the majority of the skyscrapers were built, with the car nearly involved in a crash.

Photographer Bryan Sansivero has been capturing abandoned buildings for the past decade.

American history has great flaws, and the brutal inhumanity of slavery is its worst, but the American story is driven by its principles—not its imperfections.

Americans resist the currently fashionable notion that this brutal institution represents the essence of our history and the oppressive basis of the nation's power and prosperity.

In a 'New York Times' op-ed published Friday, Hanks called for schools to teach the Tulsa Race Massacre as early as fifth grade, calling the omission of its history "tragic."

Texas state lawmakers capped hours of debate over how to teach kids about slavery and U.S. subjugation of people of color by advancing a controversial bill that prohibits critical theory in public and open-enrollment charter schools.

The likes of Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson have been brought to life thanks to modern technology.

By accepting Black history beyond slavery as simply an integral part of U.S. history, all students would get the same crucial information on our shared past, and this would help to heal racial wounds, which 2020 showed are still gaping.

Trump's biggest failures as president, according to respondents, was his general leadership and record on race relations.

Tom Cotton, of Arkansas, said: "Too many may have lost the civilization or self-confidence needed to celebrate the Pilgrims."

The 2020 election saw record voter turnout from both in-person and mail-in voters. Here are other elections that brought people to the polls.

Likely, I would not have voted for Trump at any other time. In these revolutionary times, I cannot imagine a better man.

The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858 altered the course of history. The central question addressed in the campaign was profound: would the nation continue drifting away from the principles of the American founding?

America's civics teachers conclude that students don't really need to know civics.

While the Democratic Party did support slavery in its past, the politics of both parties have changed a lot since the Civil War and Civil Rights Era.

The future of the youth vote is more up for grabs than some now think.

There is no excuse for the historical ignorance of today's vandals and statue-topplers.

Author Joel L. Daniels debates Ryan P. Williams, president of the Claremont Institute.

America's Founding principles are just and worth defending.

A look back at the Civil War ought to be most instructive.