During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to them, is an incredible story.

Land and property ownership have colored American politics since the very beginning of our democracy in New England in the ...

Three years later, after the Mexican-American War, the U.S. would obtain most of ... exploring how racism and the desire to practice slavery played roles in Texas history. That July, an event ...

“After the Mexican-American War in 1850 the enslaved people on the ... a cemetery that holds the remains of a family that helped slaves cross from what is now Pharr, Texas, into northern Mexico.

The government doled out millions of acres of land in small plots as bounty to soldiers enlisted to battle Native Americans, fight in the War of 1812, and confront Mexico in the Mexican-American War.

The U.S. Department of Labor is axing $577 million in grants that strengthen workers’ rights and combat child and forced ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory in the Revolutionary War, an American patriot will finally have a ...

I spoke with Kreitner about this fraught history of Jews and slavery, and why all American Jews — not just those who arrived before the Civil War — should take its lessons to heart.

Richard Parker's "The Crossing" recenters American history through the lens of El Paso's role in its development.