Only hours after the exhibits were replaced with signs experts say downplay the cruelty Washington’s slaves experienced, ...

A 66-foot asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 with a flash brighter than the Sun, but the shockwave arrived about 90 seconds later, smashing windows and injuring roughly 1,500 people.

Sommer Duran tells PEOPLE her family’s 1834 home has revealed everything from old photographs to the bassinet that once ...

National Correspondent; Anchor, "CBS Weekend News" Jericka Duncan is a national correspondent and anchor of the "CBS Weekend News." She's based in New York City. Kerry Breen is a news editor at ...

The WSWS received the letter posted below from Steven Mintz, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, on the webinar “The American Revolution and Its Place in History: From the War ...

Our columnist looks at the best recent releases. Credit...Caroline Gamon Supported by By Alida Becker Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the ...

Bearing the history of Texas itself, the Mission San Antonio de Valero (known as the Alamo) has passed through multiple hands in its nearly 300-year history. It has belonged to Spain, Mexico, Texas, ...

Professor Alexander Rabinowitch, the most important American historian of the 1917 Russian Revolution, passed away on June 16 at age 91. He was Professor Emeritus of History at Indiana University, ...

The new Tang Wing for American Democracy includes gallery space, a pair of classrooms, conservation studio, sculpture garden, ...

Historian Ira Berlin discusses the underground railroad and African Americans in both the North and the South on the eve of the Civil War. The notion of an underground railroad sets up ideas of ...

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