The Hispanic roots of America go back hundreds of years. A large part of what is now US territory was once ruled by the ...

University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service. This discussion was part of the American ...

As the American struggle for independence stretched past 1777, the conflict touched on the world outside the colonies ...

President Trump wants to reframe how the country's stories are told. But historians are pushing back, saying the ...

“To understand an Asian American experience, one needs to understand history, society, sociology, culture, religious ideas — that’s what constitutes Asian American studies,” Gordon Chang M ...

In a research area marred by controversy, the Picuris investigation “is a landmark project,” says archaeologist David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Several artifacts are being removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... board needs to "step up, plain and simple." "I know certain exhibits that were there ...

The word undoubtedly became part of spoken language before it appeared in print. “It is closely ... the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. “Its adoption exploded in the ...

The Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and Nantucket, was notified about the cuts on Wednesday night, according to museum president and CEO Noelle Trent. Trent said ...

National Park Service staff work tirelessly to provide park visitors with a truthful accounting of the people and places at the center of American history. That should not change, regardless of which ...