American history has never felt more urgently relevant. As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

Retiring from the classroom after 50 years in academia, every journalist’s favorite Jewish historian is enjoying a victory lap. Journalists I know joke that the only Jewish historian they ever need to ...

Some Two hundred years of American history will be reviewed during the spring “Books Sandwiched In” lunch-time review series at Richmond Memorial Library, 19 Ross St.

The young cigar maker in New York City attended a few socialist meetings in the 1870s. But he longed to hear “constructive” ideas about how to achieve a better life for himself and his fellow workers.

Staff at Stearns History Museum will soon bring decades of regional history — transportation, commerce, farming and more — into print with the publication of a new "Images of America" book. The ...

There will come a time when the images of innocent, affluent, and comfortable American Jewry – lost in missing the point – ...