Democratic Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi defeated Republican candidate John Reid on Tuesday to become the next ...

I vowed after ‘The Civil War’ not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t keep his promise—paving the way for The American Revolution, ...

Voters braved the autumn chill Tuesday to choose New York City’s next mayor in a historic election, voicing concerns about high living costs and the direction of the city.

Rebecca Courser, a Warner native and past director of the Warner Historical Society, shares her journey researching Black history in Warner, NH, documenting 174 people of color between 1775-1920, ...

How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

Sesame Street" is set to launch its 56th season on Nov. 10, debuting on Netflix while continuing to air on PBS Kids.

Sesame Street” launches its 56th season on Nov. 10 with NASCAR champion Bubba Wallace as a guest, a slightly tweaked format ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

Nations are, as the Anglo-Irish historian Benedict Anderson put it, “imagined communities”; they only exist because we collectively believe they do. Every nation is defined and shaped by the stories ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...