The name of the sitting U.S. president was never uttered during Thursday night’s New York premiere of Ken Burns’s PBS ...

A new posthumous collection from David McCullough, "History Matters," has just been published. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Jon Meacham and Dorie McCullough Lawson about it.

U.S. Constitution signing, Battle of Antietam, Soviet invasion of Poland, NFL founding, and the first space shuttle test ...

Eric Foner’s essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms” demonstrates how our understanding of the past can deepen and grow more ...