More than 1% of Americans headed west in one of the largest voluntary mass migrations in human history. It helped define who ...

Howard University says the gift comes at an “opportune time” as the government shutdown has delayed annual federal ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

Democrats don’t like Islam any more than they like Judaism or Christianity. Most of them, at best, are agnostic, many are ...

Climber Jim Morrison and filmmaker Jimmy Chin discussed Morrison's history-making descent of Everest's north side on skis.

The Cincinnati vs. Utah game kicks off from Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City at 10:15 p.m. ET and is televised on ESPN.

Today's creepy clown is a Halloween favorite—and a return to the subversive figure clowns represented in the past.

The strongest car brand in the world is Jeep,” I recall Bob Lutz saying at some kind of Chrysler young-leaders event back ...

Hurricane Melissa became one of the most powerful hurricanes on record to make landfall in the Atlantic Basin.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that ...

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we ...