Nearly four decades after it first filled an auditorium at Texas College, the annual Black History Knowledge Bowl returned Saturday, with more than a dozen teams buzzing in to test their knowledge of ...

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A new study from a pair of Penn State researchers finds that passing the US Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the last decade ...

Community organizations are asking Tufts students to take a look at the history of the towns in which they now call home. Freshman Dan Roan, who has been researching local history for an urban ...

What follows is part of a short chronological series on African and African American History. The educational system in the United States does not always offer a balanced history of Africa which is ...

I’m on a text chain with my 3 brothers and all our sons. All of us are liberal arts majors, mostly history. I dare say we Smiths are a bit contrarian. It’s our knowledge of history and learning the ...

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (WTNH) — Over 400 students from local middle and high schools took to Central Connecticut State University for a history contest on Saturday. Participants spent months researching, ...

“History,” Macaulay once wrote, “begins in novel and ends in essay.” This is a terse aphorism. What does it mean? The historian, like the novelist, tells a story, a story from some portion of the past ...

When we are debating ideas for editorials, we consider what our commentary can add to the debate. Our reporting provides the most important things to know about a topic, so there is usually not much ...

What began as a simple sightseeing visit to Kansas City’s World War I Museum and Monument has turned into an essential and motivational component of the Army’s Knowledge Management Qualification ...