It’s been 100 years since Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and 60 years since he was assassinated. His expansive legacy is the focus of a new book written by journalist Mark Whitaker. He sat ...

On May 27, the Supreme Court announced that it would not review a decision by the Boston-based US Court of Appeals for the ...

Historian Jay Winik writes about the leadup to the outbreak of the Civil War in “1861: The Lost Peace.” The' Andrew DeMillo ...

From fire-breathing flyers to dragons who love tacos and epic dragon-riding beasts, there’s a dragon tale for every kind of ...

The issue of communism in the United States, with a particular focus on the CPUSA (Communist Party of the United States of ...

Tacoma, Washington, a smokestack leached toxic lead into the water and air. Living nearby: three men who would become some of ...

After a Grand Rapids World War II veteran’s medal was found in a Georgia junk heap, a local historian dug up everything he ...

The surviving crew of the USS Frank E. Evans believed they were at war. But the names of their shipmates aren’t on the ...

COMMENTARY: The sounds of bells, the sight of flags, the silence of prayer — all bear witness to lives laid down.

The museum’s uncanny environment is the work of the Collings Foundation, a well-heeled nonprofit that is among the world’s ...

My father grew up under the American flag in the Philippines, then still a U.S. colony, and recited the Pledge of Allegiance ...

Popiełuszko: the torture and murder of the Polish martyr at the hands of communism St Maximilian Kolbe: the Auschwitz martyr who gave his life to save another prisoner Stanisław was the eldest of ...