The Gold Rush lured hundreds of thousands of people to California and changed American history. It all started with a tiny gold flake.
The United States today is home to countless stories. Together they tell us what America has been, is and could be.
A 162-page White House report accuses the National Museum of American History of ideological capture and abandoning ...
Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...
As the Treasury Department moves to place President Trump’s signature on U.S. paper currency, did you know four women's ...
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The war that defined America
This is American history at its most blunt and abstract, that doesn’t depict the war crimes and barbarism that have colored ...
In honor of the U.S. Semiquincentennial, a recent poll asked Americans what the United States has done best since declaring ...
How the simultaneous deaths of two Founding Fathers entrenched the idea that the United States was chosen by God ...
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How to Define America in 30 Objects
Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the ...
The millions of people who inhabited colonial America left traces of their lives behind—from George Washington’s bed to a ...
Recently, however, AI-generated photos associated with the MAGA-affiliated Freedom 250 website have caught a very different ...
From the lightbulb to the airplane, to medical breakthroughs and the internet age, the past 250 years have been defined by ...
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