Many political and social progressives are eager to redefine America as starting not in 1776, which is truly and literally when the very title “United States of America” began, but in the year 1619, ...

Crystal Lucas-Perry, center, as John Adams in "1776," in which the performers identify as female, transgender and nonbinary, at the American Airlines Theater in New York, Sept. 15, 2022. Credit - Sara ...

The “history wars” have heated up as more schools debate whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to the first Africans facing slavery in 1619 Virginia. A growing number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James Pfister Unfamiliar with the 1619 Project and Critical Race Theory, I set out to investigate to see how they would fit with ...

President Joe Biden travelled to Philadelphia, to Independence Hall, the place where the nation's founders signed the Declaration of Independence, to make his case for "The Continued Battle for the ...

Civil rights veteran Robert L. Woodson Sr. has been a national leader on community development for decades, but Nikole Hannah-Jones says the only reason he’s in demand is because of her. Ms.

I disagree with David Bernstein’s “Teach ‘1619’ and ‘1776’ U.S. History” (op-ed, April 11). I am a middle-school U.S.-history teacher, well aware of the difficulties of teaching history to a ...