Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

History is contested. There will always be a variety of views about what should be included and excluded from America’s story ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its ...

His executive order faulted an exhibit which “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian ...

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order ...

Vance, a Smithsonian Board of Regents member, will oversee efforts to remove “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” ...

The new research shows “that our evolutionary origins are more complex, involving different groups that developed separately for more than a million years, then came back to form the modern human ...

"However, some of the genes from the population which contributed a minority of our genetic material, particularly those related to brain function and neural processing, may have played a crucial role ...

(NewsNation) — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, as well as two other NASA astronauts, have left the International Space Station after being stuck for nine months after a Boeing test flight. The return ...