While there are plenty of historical topics U.S. citizens agree on—generally, events and figures from the Civil War up to the ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, we wrote about messed-up historical facts, and members of the BuzzFeed Community suggested some of their own in the ...

Explore the history of fiscal deficits in the U.S. from 1789 to now, and understand how early figures like Alexander Hamilton addressed budget shortfalls in the country.

Gonna shutdown like it’s 1995. The ongoing government shutdown became the second-longest in US history Wednesday, surpassing the 1995-96 lapse in federal funding as it dragged into day 22 with no end ...

President Donald Trump wants Americans to see history his way, historians be damned. On the one hand, Trump is actively trying to forbid any reevaluation of American racial history, on campuses and in ...

From the Declaration of Independence to the 9/11 terror attacks, these are the most important dates in American history. Over the last quarter of a millennium, the ...