Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coco Gauff is among the figures featured in a new book about Black history. A professional tennis player, she uses her platform to ...

Donald Trump is an instinctive authoritarian. This is the defining feature of his personality and political life. Since his return to power, he has become much more extreme, ambitious and dangerous.

Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln, is taking over the role of borough historian. He is looking ahead to some significant milestones this year. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday.

A book is coming out highlighting the work of Vermont historians and collectors of artifacts, according to a community announcement from the Vermont Historical Society, its publisher. The book, "Green ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...

DETROIT – A Detroit historian is working to ensure lesser-known stories of African American history are not lost to time. Historian and author Sharon Sexton has spent decades researching the ...

For decades, historians of the Middle East have navigated the scholarly politics of the “Palestine Exception”—an unspoken expectation that the right to practice history without ideological constraint ...

I recently interviewed Jarvis R. Givens, a professor of education and African and African American studies at Harvard University. His new book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

In speaking of his ambitions for the United States to acquire Greenland from Denmark, President Donald Trump has laid out a story of the countries’ relationship — one where the U.S. “saved” Greenland ...

The executive council of the American Historical Association said the resolutions, including one accusing Israel of ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza, would put the group at risk. By Jennifer Schuessler ...

We don't always watch TV with the hope of learning something, but there are plenty of shows that are as engaging to watch as they are educational. Period pieces dramatizing historical events and ...