U.S. Constitution signing, Battle of Antietam, Soviet invasion of Poland, NFL founding, and the first space shuttle test ...

A new posthumous collection from David McCullough, "History Matters," has just been published. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jon Meacham and Dorie McCullough Lawson about it.

The name of the sitting U.S. president was never uttered during Thursday night’s New York premiere of Ken Burns’s PBS ...

Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore explores the ongoing struggle to amend America's founding document and ...

Eric Foner’s essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms” demonstrates how our understanding of the past can deepen and grow more ...

In the past five years alone, public figures across the ideological spectrum have been targeted. America has seen eras of ...