President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.

A historian of the United States' empire discusses nuclear Greenland, selling Puerto Rico, and the renaissance of William ...

Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp and liberated the prisoners from the Nazi regime’s horrific crimes.

President Trump has signed several executive orders making sweeping changes to the immigration system. Immigration was one of ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

The policy was the result of African Americans pushing for decades to be recognized as full citizens and part of a trio of ...

Kansas public health officials say the state's ongoing tuberculosis outbreak is the largest since the CDC started reporting TB cases in the 1950s.

Immigrants have been recruited to work in the US, then later the US has deported many depending upon shifts in attitudes, economic conditions.

The word historic is too often bandied around nowadays for inconsequential events. But the inauguration today of the 47th ...

With Trump's presidential inauguration just around the corner, review the history and meaning of Inauguration Day.

Donald Trump is only the second U.S. president elected to two non-consecutive terms. The first was Grover Cleveland, who bore ...