Olivia B. Waxman

We're talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn all wrong.

'Nothing is more dramatic than having the College Board launch an AP course in a field,' says Henry Louis Gates Jr., who helped develop the curriculum.

Historical experts and former Carter advisers fact-check the critics who have compared Joe Biden to Jimmy Carter.

The Bidens' new cat Willow will be the first feline in the White House since the George W. Bush years, but is part of a long tradition.

"If you read enough sources, you run into cases of slaves spending a lot of time over Christmas crying."

Benjamin Franklin's writing about losing his son to smallpox is a must-read for parents weighing COVID-19 vaccines today.

Acknowledging the queer culture of the Harlem Renaissance is essential in order to paint a full picture of the period.

The debate over how to teach the history of race in the U.S. is entangling local school boards and engulfing national politics.

What’s new about the controversy over the Alamo’s history, and how the way Texans tell its story relates to how Americans see each other.

A century after the Tulsa Race Massacre, what happened there is finally more widely known—but other "Black Wall Street" stories remain hidden.

"Everything's sort of layered on a false understanding of history."