In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest moments before giving a speech. Instead of leaving, he stayed on stage and spoke for 84 minutes, shocking the crowd.

Pamphlets, booklets and activities educating children on history and science in national parks have come under review as the ...

Cesar Chavez took the “g” out of grape. The New York Times reports allegations from his closest aide, Dorothy Huerta, that the late United Farm Workers head pressured her into sex in 1960 and then ...

Louisville's Portland neighborhood is set for a massive historic designation, opening doors for property owners to access tax ...

FBI director Kash Patel has faced backlash from his mass firings at the agency, to use of government planes for private trips ...

In 1906, a young Congolese man was locked in a cage at the Bronx Zoo and displayed alongside an orangutan. He was not the first. The United States government had been transporting indigenous people ...

The imperialist offensive to erase 20th‑century social gains can be stopped only through the independent mobilization of the ...

A documentary on one of the longest, and largely forgotten, US occupations in history hits streaming amid anxiety over the ...

As a child, Joe Macken vowed to build a scale-model replica of New York City. Decades later, it's being displayed in an Upper ...

Ticked Off So we’re at the point where we need the government to parent our children and their social media consumption? How about you actually be a parent? The ease people release responsibilities to ...

President Chester A. Arthur nominated Justice Samuel Blatchford to the court on this day in 1882. According to Justia, Blatchford was a “precocious talent” who “enrolled in Columbia College (now […] ...