American History

From the Founding Fathers to fake news, relations between American presidents and the media have been contentious throughout the country's…

*This post was updated on Thursday, July 9, at 4:19 p.m.The past few weeks of Black Lives Matter and anti-racism protests have raised questions about the…

America’s origin story is often depicted as an optimistic struggle toward equality with citizens who will one day be united by culture and identity. In…

Take a spooky tour of San Antonio's past. Sit back and let a Broadway show transport you to wartime Vietnam. And rediscover David Bowie's take on music…

This fall marks 93 years since the Witte Museum first opened. San Antonio’s sprawling natural history museum has seen several iterations and huge growth,…

From Texas Standard : The American West isn’t a fixed idea; its scope and definition can change depending on whom you ask. So how does Texas fit into it...

Throughout the history of U.S. politics, music has been used as a rallying cry, a unifying message and most potently, a call-to-arms for…

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation quizzed 41,000 adults nationwide using questions from the U.S. citizenship test. Only one state's respondents passed.

From Texas Standard: Like media outlets all over the country, Texas Standard is working on its "Year in Review" show in the remaining weeks of 2018. But...

From Texas Standard: In this age of Twitter-driven, toxic politics, it's an interesting intellectual exercise to try and imagine how historians might...