The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with ...

In 1939, more than 120 years after the first photograph ever was taken, Robert Cornelius set up a camera in the back of his family’s store and took what is believed to be the very first photographic ...

Here’s what’s happening this month at the museum… Amy Kehs EXHIBITIONS NOW ON VIEW Melania Trump’s Inaugural Gown 2025 Melania Trump's Inaugural Gown National Museum of American History First Lady ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...

The Grayson Springs Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, honored Susan Thorpe with the ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative ...

The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of Joseph and Rachel Moore, Black New Yorkers who lived in Lower Manhattan’s tenements in the 1860s and 1870s. The Tenement Museum's exhibit of the home of ...

American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (center left) in a crowd during the Pride March (later the LGBT Pride March) in New York on June 27, 1982. American gay liberation activist Marsha P ...

Eisenhower Elementary School proudly hosted its second annual African American History Month Guest Reader event on Feb. 23.