When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

In 1911, Columbia University’s David Muzzey incorporated it into a textbook—initially titled History of the American People—that would be used by most of the nation’s secondary schools for ...

A new documentary series from Kevin Costner will offer 'diverse perspectives' on stories of America's westward expansion.

He owned people. And now I’m here because of it ... Frederick Douglass was likely the most photographed American of the 19th century—there are 168 known photographs of him, compared ...

The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California. When they reached the ...

American History TV (AHTV) features programming geared toward history lovers with 48 hours every weekend of people and events that document the American story. C-SPAN began C-SPAN3 operations in ...

President Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. It aims at eliminating what the president calls “improper ideology” from the American Historical ...