The museum is at the site of the former Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968. During ...

Linford Fisher’s work on the project started with considering New England’s connection to the Atlantic slave trade.

Dr. John E. Fleming was involved in the creation of the first national African American museum in Ohio and later, Smithsonian ...

As the U.S. nears its 250th anniversary, a battle for the soul of U.S. history is unfolding, with efforts being made to ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recently acquired several significant artifacts that reflect key ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

A group of local veteran advocates is planning to create a museum of modern American military history in Allegheny Township.

In 1939, more than 120 years after the first photograph ever was taken, Robert Cornelius set up a camera in the back of his family’s store and took what is believed to be the very first photographic ...

1619 marks a key moment in American and African-American history. This is why it matters — and why it's become controversial. Credit: Mashable composite; Getty Images / mikroman6 We look to history to ...

Some Florida high school students could be sitting in new college-level American history classes next year, as the state is ...