U.S. History

McCarthy can only lose five votes from the GOP's 222-seat House majority before failing to meet the minimum needed to become Speaker.

A stunned country was informed of the news by reporter Walter Cronkite, who removed his glasses, cleared his throat and blinked rapidly during the broadcast.

The wreck of the German U-Boat U-111 was intentionally sunk by the U.S. Navy in 1923 after it was captured at the end of the war.

Ron DeSantis's claim that the American revolution "caused people to question slavery" has been rejected by historians.

A tweet from academic Matt Glassman claiming Queen Elizabeth II reigned for 30 percent of U.S. history went viral. But was he correct?

John Hinckley Jr. told Newsweek that he was "being met with a cancel culture in the music business."

America's greatest historian knew that stories mattered, people mattered and, most important, context mattered.

If Judge Jackson does not believe that our rights as Americans are "natural," originating from our equal status as human beings, from where does she think our rights come?

Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune's friendship with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt led to the desegregation of pilot training programs.

In America, it's China in reverse: A very different brand of amnesia—and self-hatred—is being promoted.

Biden will break records as the oldest person to be elected president as well as the oldest sitting president in U.S. history.

The second term agenda does not clarify if American exceptionalism would be taught as an ideology, or studied as a critical concept to better understand U.S. history.

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.

As discussions about race and opportunity proliferate in the weeks and months to come, McGee's life story is an inspiration for us all.

Imagine waking up and getting in the shower, only to rub your body with toilet paper. Feeling "sparkly clean"? No, right! Then, why we are so comfortable doing exactly that to the dirtiest part of our bodies—our nether regions.

The surprising inside stories of five classics, including PB&J.

Sexual assault allegations against the president are an unavoidable part of United States history.

Sidney Blumenthal writes that HBO should base its what-if history "Confederate" on what really happened

Jimmy Carter's reputation is being rehabilitated. But he did make one gargantuan mistake.

By 1921, Einstein was recognized as one of the most talented minds of his generation.

No longer burning, the Bronx is suddenly hot.

The Vietnam War was the first time Americans had a daily photographic record of the conflict.