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For some, history is just that: Something to be learned in a classroom — a collection of names and stories in thick textbooks. But there are many reasons history is important well beyond a midterm ...

A lot of big news happened in 2023, but it was also a year to remember things that happened in other years. That's right — we're diving into history with a year-end roundup of anniversaries. It was 50 ...

In 1939, more than 120 years after the first photograph ever was taken, Robert Cornelius set up a camera in the back of his family’s store and took what is believed to be the very first photographic ...

For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

Join students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics ranging from the American Revolution to 9-11. Discover the people and events that document the American story — Saturdays on C-SPAN2.

“It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the ...

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Do you know when women first won the right to vote? How about when they started holding powerful positions in the government? These aren’t just dates on a calendar—they’re moments in women’s history ...