Independence Day is about U.S. history. Specifically, when this land became the United States, which is a great story. Truth is usually stranger, and more interesting, than fiction, and in the 249 ...

These are some of the most insightful history books to add to your reading list. "Hands up all who know when Tsarist Russia took Finland from Sweden (1809) and when it partitioned Poland (1795)," said ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

As GOP lawmakers push to ban some books and restrict history lessons, groups across the country plan a day of actions to ...

The Right-Wing Textbooks Shaping What Many Americans Know About History. ... The history content of Abeka textbooks was—and remains—dramatically distinct from mainstream books.

Editor’s note: Lynda Lin Grigsby is a journalist and editor who has written for a number of national news outlets. She is a former editor of the Pacific Citizen, a national Asian American ...

In Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity, out Sept. 27, Harvard University researcher Donald Yacovone analyzed 220 history textbooks from ...

The teaching of history has become a flashpoint in the culture wars. But while the battle is fierce, it’s not new. An earlier round in the conflict in the 1920s — over the teaching of the ...

As Stern explains in his powerful new history, it was this same brooding that, in the 1930s and ’40s, helped shape the legal thinking of the future U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall ...

Smithsonian's picks for the best history books of 2024 include The Barn, Eden Undone and The Wide Wide Sea. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz. As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary ...

During a demonstration of the features of the “American History: Reconstruction to the Present” textbook, a Ramona Unified School District committee debated strategies of handling perceived ...