While there are plenty of historical topics U.S. citizens agree on, the birth of the nation isn't one of them, according to a new report from Johns Hopkins SNF Agora Institute and a nonprofit called ...

From the Declaration of Independence to the 9/11 terror attacks, these are the most important dates in American history. Over the last quarter of a millennium, the ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, we wrote about messed-up historical facts, and members of the BuzzFeed Community suggested some of their own in the ...

In the last decade, at least 20 states have passed laws or policies that restrict how history can be taught in schools. Since taking office, President Trump has pushed further with executive orders ...

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Re “Trump’s Politics Are Changing How History and Civics Are Taught” (news article, Nov. 7): As the historian John Hope Franklin once observed, “The writing of history reflects the interests, ...

Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country’s memory?

Age was nothing but a number for the leaders who ascended to the presidency in the later years of their lives Jim Watson-Pool/Getty Images; Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images; Harry Langdon/Getty Images On ...