Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump in May. Geoff Bennett recently spoke with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration’s ongoing ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of ...

Uniting more than 200 sites across eastern Kansas and western Missouri, Freedom's Frontier preserves the story of the border ...

These private sessions are recorded in Moynihan’s London journals, housed today at the Library of Congress. The journals contain graphic ... First was the history of slavery. Scholar Stanley Elkins, ...

Philly is already in the thick of Fourth of July week preparations and festivities, with Wawa’s Welcome America lineup in ...

When possible, she includes descriptions of the homes from the enslaved African-Americans who lived in them. A slave house in Prince William County, Virginia, in 1959. Library of Congress ...

TOPEKA, Kansas — Freedom’s Frontier, a coalition of more than 200 historically significant sites on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border, will “cease to exist” if Congress approves proposed ...

The French engineer Gustave Eiffel’s plan sketch was found to have been changed to help the statue withstand weather like ...

The reception of Lafayette at Mount Vernon, home of Washington,’ painted by Herman Bencke around 1875. Bencke & Scott/Library of Congress by Matthew Smith America is nearing the 250th ...