More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming ...

American history stretches back thousands of years through indigenous civilizations, then layers in centuries of colonial ...

Philadelphia will mark America’s 250th with “52 Weeks of Firsts,” a 2026 celebration of Philly inventions — from the first ...

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison. Their goal was to ...

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro claims the U.S. is waging a war against him as the world's largest warship nears the ...

On 1795, Pinckney's Treaty with Spain settled Florida's northern boundary and gave navigation rights on the Mississippi River to the United States.

A new show featuring decommissioned statues dispels myths of American history at a moment when President Trump is insisting ...

Dubbed the 19th century’s “queen of Gothic novel” and the “Shakespeare of Romance Writers,” Ann Radcliffe (nee Ward), born in 1764, outsold almost every other 19th-century female writer. Her name is ...

The Trump administration announced the launch of “TrumpRx,” a government-run website designed to give patients access to prescription drugs at a discounted price. The move is meant to be a ...

For centuries, explorers set sail toward lands that never existed, climbed mountains that were never there, and searched for ...

Through a series of executive orders targeting place names, signage on, and access to public lands and waters, the Trump ...