Historians defended Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, after the Trump administration ...

The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National ...

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...

Discoveries from DNA testing, archaeology and archival research have reshaped what historians know about Jefferson, Washington and other Founding Fathers.

Historians explain why everyone in Victorian portraits was so pale, and the answer involves arsenic, belladonna, and deadly ...

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, historians see echoes of the political turmoil, economic anxiety and ...

In the fall of 1998, as an assistant history professor recently out of graduate school, I was excited to get a call from a producer of a local CBS morning news show who had noticed a panel discussion ...

President Joe Biden hosted a small group of scholars and historians for lunch on Wednesday as he gears up for a speech framing the upcoming election as a battle for the nation’s democracy. The ...

As America approaches its milestone 250th anniversary, historians are uncovering fascinating stories about the traditions, ...

But in a moment in which it seems not only increasingly impossible, but irresponsible, to ignore the deep flaws at the heart ...

Our Friday politics roundtable convenes with presidential historians Lindsay Chervinsky and Jon Meacham, who join hosts Robin Young and Scott Tong to reflect on the difference between patriotism and ...

“OMG they yassified her." ...