Our nation is deeply wounded after the events of last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, when a white nationalist gathering erupted in violence, resulting in the death of activist Heather Heyer and ...

A lathe operator machining parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas 1942 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) There is a photo of federal housing ...

“To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America” will be on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., from March 11 through Sept. 5. Alexander Nemerov, the Vincent Scully ...

On June 18, 1940, Churchill delivered his celebrated “Finest Hour” speech. The British army had been evacuated from Dunkirk. France, under Pétain, had decided to surrender. “Hitler knows that he will ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — You won’t find Raul Manriquez’s story on monuments or in Hollywood blockbusters, but he helped redefine what it means to be an American in North Texas in the 1930s and 40s. Despite ...

It’s a cliché to refer to a decade as a "decade of change." In the summation of our nation's history, what decade wasn't a decade of change? Change is perhaps the great constant of American history, ...

When black historian Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926 (expanded to Black History Month in 1976), the prevailing sentiment was that black people had no history. They were little ...

It was an era when style was unmistakably defined, and men and women, despite the immense challenges they faced, always found a way to express their elegance. There were no piercings or tattoos; ...

HBO Films has put in development The Color of Cola, based on Stephanie Capparell’s nonfiction book The Real Pepsi Challenge, an account of how Pepsi broke racial barriers in 1940s America. Mitchell ...

Before the United States entered World War II, few Americans would have suspected that the territory of Alaska would play a role in America's fight against the Axis powers. In 1940, Alaska was still a ...

Confronting the global ecological emergency will require a mobilization far more ambitious than any actions now being considered by governments or international bodies. In response, several of the ...