When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

D.C.’s unique status may come down to a secret meeting between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

Barcelona recorded its hottest month of June since records started over a century ago, Spain’s national weather service said ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about.

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

It commemorates the announcement of emancipation to enslaved African Americans in Texas in 1865. On January 1, 1863, ...

June 19 is a U.S. national holiday known as Juneteenth. It combines the words June and Nineteenth, the day in 1865 on which ...

From a battlefield in Guilford County to lyrics in the blockbuster Broadway hit Hamilton, Greensboro's namesake is prominent figure in U.S. history.