There’s power in remembering the past. That’s why families, schools, colleges, and friends hold reunions teeming with more old stories than there are mosquitoes on a hot Iowa evening. Those stories ...

Did Iowans choose to lose their history? Probably not. But that is what is happening in their name. With the Reynolds administration’s decision to close the State Historical Society’s longstanding ...

Studying history is important because it allows us to understand our past, which allows us to understand our present. History can provide us with insight into our cultures of origin and cultures with ...

The negatives of American history were part of history lessons 70 years ago. What has changed is the effort to distort that truth by the media. The great-great grandparents of today's students arrived ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A treasure trove of rare letters from American history are going under ...

“Familiar letters written by eyewitnesses, and that, without design, disclose circumstances that let us move more intimately into events, are genuine history.” English nobleman Horace Walpole, 1784 ...