History

Historian Justene Hill Edwards, in her book Savings and Trust, tells the story of the Freedman's Bank, a financial institution created after the Civil War to serve f...

The BBC article is a first-person investigative piece in which the author says that, almost four decades after the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing, they reexamined t...

NPR reports that a federal preservation council, described in the story as being staffed largely by appointees of former President Donald Trump, is poised to rewrite...

This article is an excerpt from Lauren Collins's forthcoming book They Stole a City (publishing July 14, 2026). Collins examines the events of November 1898 in Wilmi...

Bret Baier wrote an opinion piece urging Americans to visit national historic and natural sites for the 250th anniversary. He described the dedication of the Theodor...

The Trump administration issued an executive order in 2025 directing changes to which stories and artifacts could be displayed on federal lands, and federal official...

Polish President Karol Nawrocki revoked the Order of the White Eagle that former Polish President Andrzej Duda had awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy...

The Advisory Council for Historic Preservation (ACHP), whose membership the article says was mostly appointed by President Trump, is reported to be preparing to end ...

A 162-page White House Domestic Policy Council report titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” published July 4, alleges the Smithsonian Institution’...

Opinion piece by Michael Oren published by Fox News draws a historical parallel between the late-18th/early-19th century Barbary pirates and today’s tensions involvi...

PBS NewsHour ran live coverage of a House Oversight hearing focused on how the Smithsonian Institution presents U.S. history. The article frames the hearing as occur...

The article summarizes reporting by Lauren Collins (author of the forthcoming book They Stole a City) about the 1898 violent takeover in Wilmington, North Carolina. ...