With flinty perseverance and a golden touch, Belinda Mulrooney earned an unlikely fortune in the frozen north and reshaped the Canadian frontier A century on, the country’s most beloved Thursday ...

Join students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9-11. Covering American History C-SPAN style: with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, and ...

By 1804, dueling had become an American fixture. And for another thirty years or more, its popularity would continue to grow. Like many early American customs, dueling was imported. Starting in ...

Get a better sense of how illnesses have shaped history with these gripping reads about history’s most notorious diseases.

Claim: President Donald Trump has said that the recently passed Republican tax reform legislation is the "biggest tax cut in US history". Verdict: It is not the biggest tax cut in US history ...

A Texas county just reversed its decision to classify a children's book on Native American history as fiction after public ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

In this collection, explore films, interviews, articles, image galleries and more for an in-depth look at notable female figures in American history. The story of the pioneering women who changed ...

A Montgomery County committee caused an outcry after labelling “Colonization and the Wampanoag story,” a children’s Native ...

The US has a long history of blasphemy laws, which reflect the complex fight for freedom of religion and speech.

In 2022, President Biden became the first U.S. president to declare April as Arab American Heritage Month, in recognition of the contributions of Arab Americans to the nation's history. Americans of ...

Discover a bevy of presidential trivia, from Washington to Biden. Also, if you’re a US history buff looking for more, don’t miss the premiere of the documentary series “LBJ: Triumph and ...