Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Stories of people of color aren’t always found in the usual public records or data sets. Often, the stories are hidden in slave schedules and plantation accounting books. They are packed away with ...

In Jamaica a few years ago, during a period when I was doing research on slavery for USA TODAY’s 1619 project, I heard reggae songs that spoke about “the half that has never been told.” I learned that ...

The University of Mississippi's Declaration of Independence Center teaches students about founding documents as surveys show widespread ignorance of American history and civics.

MR. MCMASTER gives notice of the school to which he belongs when he entitles his history of the United States A History of the People of the United States. 1 The late Mr. J. R. Green was not precisely ...

One of Alexi Lalas’ earliest sports memories was the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter Olympics, and he spent his whole adolescence dreaming about being a part of something like it: an American flag ...