As most parents know, traveling with kids can be totally awesome or totally catastrophic. Our secret recipe for success when traveling with kids involves two ingredients — getting ourselves outside as ...

Illustration of the slave revolt in Haiti, and what slaveholders in the United States feared. Digital Media Lab, University of Virginia Between 1791 and 1810, more than 25,000 refugees arrived on ...

Despite the long history of Hispanic residents in the United States, there was no systematic effort to count this group separately in the Census until the late 20 th century. An analysis of changes in ...

Rosina Lozano, associate professor of history, researches Latino history with a focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ...

To better make sense of the historical events that led to this moment, here’s five things to know about the United States’ history of abortion: Abortion was not illegal until the 1800s.

The history of book bans—and their changing targets—in the U.S. Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books.

Description. This lesson looks at how the United States has used tariffs throughout its history to implement trade policy. It looks at the role tariffs have played as a revenue source before the ...

Robert Remini talked about his book [A Short History of the United States] (Harper; October 7, 2008). The historian of the United States House of Representatives presents a history of the United ...

2001 - FISA resurfaces in the news after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Soon after the attacks, President George W. Bush signs off on a secret NSA domestic spying program.

A graphic displayed in the guidelines, entitled "Aspects and Assumptions of Whiteness in the United States," declares that rational thinking and hard work, among others, are white values.

On Sept. 9, 1776, the Continental Congress formally changed the name of their new nation to the “United States of America,” rather than the “United Colonies,” which was in regular use at ...