Thirty-six years ago today, Billy Joel reached the top of the chart with a song with lyrics pulled straight from the ...

Writer Amelia Edelman, right, took her 10-year-old son Silas, left, to Italy — and learned a lot about parenting at a ...

On this day 160 years ago, the United States of America ratified the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, immortalizing a self-evident principle that ...

John Dickerson talks with journalist and author Andrew Ross Sorkin about his new book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How It Shattered a Nation — the story of speculation, ...

It was a pitch-black night in 1996 when a President Clinton support C-130 ignored takeoff protocol and slammed into Sheep Mountain above Jackson at ...

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

This is an audio transcript of the Swamp Notes podcast episode: ‘Trump’s plan to give babies money’ Marc Filippino Were you born yesterday? Well, if you were, I’ve got som ...

A retelling of James Garfield's assassination and other recent TV programs about history show an interest in saying 'who we ...

As strand by strand of the safety net is plucked away until it’s shredded, aging in America is a fearful and destructive business. And Donald Trump doesn’t care. The hands of an elderly woman. This ...

Darvin Delacruz recalled how he was playing a video game 24 years ago when he heard his mother's blood-curdling scream. At 10 years old, he tried to continue the game; his mother’s "no" grew louder ...

Between June and August 1949, the streamliner was taken to four different dry-lakes points meets to allow Dean to get used to ...

Most people know that part of the reason why the first Thanksgiving was celebrated because the first winter in Plymouth did a ...