The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit and sending it back to South Africa ...

The Leo Twiggs exhibition in Charleston brings together all nine of the artists "Requiem for Mother Emmanuel" paintings.

(RNS) — This February marks the 50th anniversary of the national commemoration of Black History Month, proclaimed by President Gerald Ford in 1976 as part of the bicentennial celebrations. But Black ...

Historians say a White House prayer anthology and 250th anniversary events promote a Christian-centric view of US history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Smithsonian Institution is struggling for its independence amid an ideological battle with the Trump administration over how ...

Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 years of Jewish life in the United States, from Colonial times to the present.

Talk about good timing. Antisemitism, an American Tradition, a powerful new book by American University professor Pamela Nadell, has just been published. The book comes at a time when certain sectors ...

The Trump/MAGA/White Supremacist administration is ordering the removal of information and depictions of the era of slavery in the United States. One of the most emblematic images of enslavement is ...