One of the last surviving actors to be blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare, the Academy Award-winning performer ...

The Real Story of America’s Pandemic School Closures,” is one woman’s effort to expose a scandal that has grown only more ...

Fifty years after the last U.S. helicopters left Saigon, why America lost the Vietnam War is elusive. But can a tabletop wargame offer insight?

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian presents the online Native Cinema Showcase, celebrating short films by Indigenous filmmakers of the Western Hemisphere. The museum’s annual ...

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns will be awarded the first Commonwealth Prize, an honor contributions to the history and culture of Virginia.

That’s two years longer than the actual length of the American Revolution, but the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army ...

Selena was a Grammy-winning Latin artist known as the “Queen of Tejano Music.” Read about her songs, husband, movie, when she ...

The Native American democracy that the U.S. founders were most likely to know about was the Iroquois Confederacy. They call themselves the Haudenosaunee, the “people of the longhouse,” because the ...