On a beach in North Carolina more than a century ago, Orville Wright was first to get a powered aircraft off the ground, albeit only for a very short time and distance. It’s an…

The history of the United States is complicated and often distressing. Public schools that ignore or gloss over the difficulties do a great disservice to the children who will…

Everyone knows about Amelia Earhart, but can you name another notable female pilot? Some of the great pioneers of aviation were women, and the story of a group of women who were…

“Whiteness” is a relatively new category, used to describe a race that (some historians argue) doesn’t actually exist. What can it help us understand about America today?

The Ku Klux Klan reappeared in the 1920s, promoted by a pair of public relations executives using images drawn from a blockbuster movie. But the Klan soon collapsed from internal…