Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created ...

Reconstruction may be one of the most misunderstood eras in American ... is really a myth. The Union army was demobilized very, very fast at the end of the Civil War. Some people thought, too ...

America's myth of opportunity has created the unprecedented civic crisis that brought Donald Trump back to power, writes Adam ...

It's time to put an end to the most alluring science myths, misconceptions ... t give you diabetes. The American Diabetes Association, while it recommends that people avoid soda and sports ...

For the first century of American history, serious state-level regulation ... ordinances restricting the times and locations where people could fire off those cannons inside town limits.

The modern stab-in-the-back myth got its start in Germany exactly ... was hailed as one of the signal triumphs of American military history. General David Petraeus was celebrated as a “savior ...

assign groups of students different periods in American history and ask them to research how the Myth of West appears (or doesn’t); compare and contrast the version of the Old West represented ...

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn ...

But many people ... to see more public history markers about Sojourner Truth. In 2009, there was the bust of her in the Capitol, which I believe was the first African American woman to be so ...

Regular people received their history knowledge growing up ... (Public domain image via Wikimedia) After decades in the American consciousness, a myth like this can be difficult to eliminate.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...