While there are plenty of historical topics U.S. citizens agree on—generally, events and figures from the Civil War up to 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 — ...

Gonna shutdown like it’s 1995. The ongoing government shutdown became the second-longest in US history Wednesday, surpassing the 1995-96 lapse in federal funding as it dragged into day 22 with no end ...

I am a history professor at one of the universities under attack by the Trump Administration. I am also a flag-waving patriot with an abiding love of the United States. Those two statements might seem ...

President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned. On the one hand, Trump is actively trying to forbid any reevaluation of American racial history, on campuses and in ...