• Americans are reflecting on the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001 — a day that changed the world. Events commemorating the solemn ...

“You know what happens if you don’t vote? You go to hell,” Trump said at the Republican midterm convention on Thursday, Sept. 10 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has ...

President Trump closed out the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday by urging attendees to pledge to go out and vote in November’s midterm elections. “Please raise your right hand,” ...

Donald Trump loves rallies. Everyone can see how they energize him, how the crowd’s applause encourages him to ditch the hackneyed prose of his speechwriters and go on wild riffs, how the music and ...

President Trump used part of his speech to make people in the arena promise to vote. “Please raise your right hand,” Trump said Thursday from the stage. “I pledge to the greatest president in the ...

When America’s founding fathers set out to create a new country independent from Great Britain, they had a lot of decisions to make. One was simply what to call their invention. Today, the world may ...

The United States marks the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil with a stunning lack of preparedness to handle mounting new threats and resurgent old ones. Rapidly evolving ...

A creative interpretation of the law enabled President Franklin Roosevelt to provide military aid to Britain despite his initial belief that he needed Congress’s approval to act. President Donald ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. As I announced in Executive Order 14172 of January 20, 2025 (Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness), it is the policy of my Administration to recognize the ...

Dave Zirin traces the radical career of Howard Zinn, whose “A People’s History of the United States” has sold millions of copies. By Adam Hochschild Adam Hochschild’s most recent book is “American ...

Most historians are lucky to have readers. Zinn has fans. A People’s History made him, by the standards of historians at any rate, a celebrity. In the early 2000s, he coordinated stage performances ...

A pair of new books look back at the fear, anxiety and optimism that shaped the founding of the United States. By Claire Rydell Arcenas Claire Rydell Arcenas is a professor of history at the ...