"Black history, by definition, is political. Black people, by definition, are political," author and creator of The 1619 ...

Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Gillespie resettled in Milwaukee by the mid-1850s and challenged local officials who ...

President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history and public affairs professor Julian Zelizer talked about the assassination of President John Kennedy, the event that led ...

Selma Jubilee revelers annual trek across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama reminds us why we can never stop advocating for ...

Trump plans to move oversight of services for kids with disabilities to Health and Human Services. Critics say the agency ...

President Donald Trump’s agenda on gender, abortion, and religion is driving major changes at a little-known health ...

President Trump has embarked on a systematic effort to unravel Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights legacy, rolling back ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at eliminating the U.S. Education Department. On immigration, ...

The Trump administration released documents about the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy this week, and his grandson Jack ...

The release of as many as 80,000 pages of classified files comes after decades of smaller releases of redacted files.

Such nostalgia can include favorable feelings for three Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices who, over the course of ...