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A major expansion of the child tax credit during the height of the COVID pandemic temporarily slashed the child poverty rate in half. That is one reason why it has become a hot topic in the presidential race.

Certain aspects of China today are without historical precedent, but some lessons do arise from Japan's and America's own imperial pasts, write historians Alexis Dudden and Jeffrey Wasserstrom.

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

President Trump says he isn't ruling out the possibility of seeking a 3rd term in office. And, an executive order targets the Smithsonian Institution to restore "sanity to American history."

As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace of the very concept of the working class.

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.

NPR's history show, Throughline, takes us back to 1969 and the creation of the children's TV show Sesame Street.

The questioning of Gerry Adams arises partly from interviews conducted in academic research for Boston College. Harvard law professor Noah Feldman explains rights of disclosure in academic archives.

The Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, which turns 50 this year, hopes to counter Russian aggression by teaching U.S. audiences about Ukrainian history and culture.

The U.S. isn't alone in confronting sites dedicated to contentious, and often troubling, moments in its history.