The 2019 U.S. government shutdown, the longest in American history, stretched 35 days (December 22, 2018—January 25, 2019) ...

Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation mark the start of Black History Month — a celebration of Black history, culture and education. The history of the observance dates ...

The holidays are upon us. And this Dec. 26th and Jan. 1, as some celebrate Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, Bahamians across the world will partake in one of the biggest holiday celebrations in the ...

Two new history books make a strong case for why learning about the past is critical to understanding the world today. First, History Matters is a posthumous collection of writings by American ...

Gwen Partridge, or Mrs. Gwen to her pre-K students, walked around her homemade Black History Museum at the YMCA Immanuel Early Learning Center in Omaha, Neb., on an icy Thursday. She and her ...

While artificial intelligence excels at tasks like coding and podcast generation, it struggles to accurately answer high-level history questions, according to a study. Artificial intelligence-powered ...

Americans are fighting about history. This past week, thousands of students from across the country came together to celebrate it. Kaleb Ice playing Elton John in a National History Day performance ...

A government shutdown occurs when Congress fails to pass funding legislation for federal agencies. The longest government shutdown in U.S. history lasted 35 days from late 2018 to early 2019. The ...

The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...