Ortiz’s an AN Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States was first released in 2015 as part of Beacon Press’s Revisioning History series. Other books in the series include the histories of queer ...

Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

The Smithsonian Institution was established with funds from James Smithson (1765–1829), a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the ...

At the most basic level, a mortgage is a long-term consumer loan taken for the purpose of eventually paying off the loan and ...

There’s something truly marvelous about visiting a national park. It’s a connection to something much larger than ourselves, ...

Unions were also instrumental in ending child labor in the United States. They've exerted a broad ... In 2024, 14.3 million people employed in the U.S. belonged to unions, representing about ...