As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in US ...

Today in History for Nov. 20: In 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the U.S. Bill of Rights. In 1841, Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's seventh prime minister, was born. He was Canada's first ...

The Senator John Heinz History Center has acquired the archives of one of the nation’s most beloved historians, Pittsburgh ...

A GW history professor outlined how centuries of conflict and colonization shaped Native American racial identity during a ...

Former Premier League soccer player Joey Barton has been convicted of sending grossly offensive social media posts about two female pundits and a broadcaster who works on British television. A jury ...

"It's baby David and baby Kelly!" David Archuleta and Kelly reflect on meeting each other for the first time the night Kelly won "American Idol," and Kelly can't believe the man that 11-year-old boy ...

As the government shutdown lingers, the impacts of the budget impasse continue to grow, with hundreds of thousands of federal workers missing paychecks and agencies closing and unstaffed. Now, the ...

Jim Morrison, 50, accomplished the feat at 7:45 p.m. local time on Wednesday. An American skier made history on Wednesday as the first to descend Mount Everest's notoriously narrow north face route.

On October 13, a group of Indigenous artists took over the American collection at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to emphasize the need to elevate alternative narratives on Columbus Day—now ...

Dover Area school officials are set to vote on a new Advanced Placement U.S. History textbook. The book was recommended by the assistant superintendent and social studies department to align with ...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the ...

We just fell back. The season of darkness is coming on. But this year, more than any I can remember that darkness feels existential, not just seasonal.