The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with ...

By documenting the extraordinary role Black women have played in shaping Boston, the initiative preserves stories too often ...

With Women’s History Month underway and International Women’s Day approaching on March 8, classrooms and museums across the ...

Explore the post-WWII era that reshaped American family life, from suburbs and baby boom to household technology.

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative ...

This ivory dress decorated with swirls of handmade fabric rose vines was designed by Ann Lowe. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia ...

Large trunks discovered in a basement offer a window into the lives and struggles of early Filipino migrants Sam Vong, PhD In 2005, Antonio Somera, a Filipino American member of the Legionarios del ...