American history is filled with stories we’ve all been taught in school, stories so widely repeated that most of us accept them as fact. But over time, historians have uncovered new evidence, context, ...

Host Aymann Ismail explores how Muslims shaped the imagination of America’s founding generation. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Qur’an? That George Washington owned enslaved ...

When we think about poverty in America, a specific image might come to mind, but the reality is often far more complex and widespread than we assume. The data reveals a story that challenges ...

To mark the 250th anniversary of America’s founding on July 4, 1776, Smithsonian magazine is highlighting the people, places and events that shaped the United States’ fight for independence from Great ...

An estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, and 17,000 more combatants died from diseases like typhus, typhoid, dysentery, and influenza. The British suffered 24,000 casualties from the war, ...

For a brief, bewildering moment in American history, the nation couldn’t agree on when to carve the turkey. In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt shocked Americans by moving Thanksgiving up one ...

(RNS) — This February marks the 50th anniversary of the national commemoration of Black History Month, proclaimed by President Gerald Ford in 1976 as part of the bicentennial celebrations. But Black ...

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s story is told, in Washington and beyond. By Jennifer Schuessler President ...

People rally to celebrate the reinstallation of a slavery exhibit at the historic President’s House Site, February 19, 2026, in Philadelphia. Credit: Joe Lamberti/AP Photo Philadelphia’s President’s ...

WASHINGTON (Amazing America) — You probably think you know George Washington—America’s first Commander-in-Chief and President—after years of social studies and history lessons. But Amazing America's ...