Norman C. Francis, a civil rights pioneer and champion of education who played a pivotal role in helping rebuild New Orleans ...

The Justice Department insists the administration alone can decide what stories are told at National Park Service properties.

The story is that George Washington had wooden teeth, and while he did have dental troubles and dentures, they weren’t made out of wood.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice ...

The Issue: The ongoing investigation into the abduction of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie. The endless coverage of the Nancy ...

President Herbert Hoover argued that “what we have need of today in this celebration is to renew in our people the inspiration that comes from George Washington as a founder of human liberty, as the ...

By 1864, more than 12,000 surgeons had served in the Union army throughout the Civil War. Just 14 of them were Black. Historian Jill Newmark's 2023 book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of ...

A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to ...

On this day 250 years ago, Washington would have been nearing the end of an almost yearlong siege that bottled up as many as 11,000 British troops and hundreds more loyalists. The British were ...

Try this quiz on the documents, writers and events that led to the American Revolution and the foundation of the country.

The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...