The president’s shameful “skinny budget” would decimate our parks. We must continue to defend the integrity of our historic sites. In August 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before an audience ...

Barbara Kent Lawrence, Ed.D., is the author of the historical novel “Both Sides of the Pond, My Family’s War: 1933-1946,” her ninth book. She lives in Brunswick. In his Oct. 25, 2025, article in the ...

On MLK day in 2011, I was working in a small nursing home in my home county back in Iowa. I was tired and making $8 an hour helping 120 nursing home residents maintain interest in active lives. These ...

Dear Friends of American Experience, America's history is complicated. It is inspiring. And it is rich. It contains a treasure trove of cautions, but also triumphs that remain the envy of the world.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Weeks before losing the 2020 election, President Donald Trump offered a glimpse of ...

The objects were delicately retrieved from the ground like pieces of the puzzles of history. Broken shards of ceramic plates used long ago by students, chunks of roofing tile from a mansion that once ...