Between the shots fired around the world outside of Boston and the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Florida's strategic importance to the British crown preoccupied George Washington. The ...

(The Conversation) — Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

President Trump's executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" aims to refocus American history education towards national greatness and away from what it deems "revisionist" ...

Asked what he thought of Western civilisation, Mahatma Gandhi is said to have quipped that such a thing “would be a good idea”. (The West, he suggested, was not so enlightened.) But as Josephine Quinn ...

America cannot afford to whitewash its past. Yet that is exactly what is at stake in the current review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To question whether slavery and ...

Florida's strategic importance to the British during the American Revolution is often overlooked. The America250 celebration offers a chance to broaden the historical narrative to include Florida's ...