American Culture

In this modern era of technology, it's surprisingly easy to find out about a person. Whether it's just curiosity, or there's a more important reason--such as screening a babysitter's past--the...

Family history is frequently lost to time. The jokes, oft-told stories and personality quirks are difficult to capture in snapshots alone. Go beyond photo albums, oral traditions and family trees....

Oral history is the collection of personal remembrances and reflections that provide valuable insight into how people experienced historical events. Oral historians record, document and preserve...

American history has a lot to do, sadly, with war. A country born from conflict, the United States of America has spent less time at peace than at war during the more than 200 years of its...

Family history isn't just genealogy. While learning vital statistics--birth, marriage, and death dates, military enrollment and hometowns--can help to bring lost family members to life, other...

The history of New York state spans several centuries and is steeped in the history of the colonization of North America. These facts about New York history will give you a brief overview of the...

Teaching students the history of July 4th is a wonderful contribution to civic duty. It is your opportunity to cultivate, in your students, pride in our country and what our country stands for.

History can be loved or loathed. If you are the one teaching it, it can be hard motivating students to learn. Finding ways to make history more interesting will help students develop an...

Celebrating July 4th is one of the most important things we do each year. It is a day for us to celebrate our independance and history.

Many Americans may think of king cake as a New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition, but its origins reach back to early pagan Europeans. Surprisingly, though much about the tradition has changed over the...

The history of the New York subway is a microcosm of the history of the United States: it started out as a formidible venture and, despite bumps along the way, has become one of the most-used...

Every March is Women's History Month. It marks a time for recognizing and honoring the achievements of women. Women's History Month presents an opportunity to educate the public about the role...

Although it is good not to live in, or dwell on, the past, it is also important to be aware of things that happened in the past. If we are not aware of history then we may relive the same...

History is written on every moment of January 20th, 2009. The ascension of Barack Obama to the US Presidency is one of the most remarkable piece of news and history you could ever witness. You...

You will learn how to incorporate oral history as a technique in researching your family genealogy.

Long before "The L Word" rocked cable TV audiences, long before stand-up comedian Kate Clinton filled concert halls, before Ellen Degeneres came out to sitcom audiences, and before k.d....

There are many ways to preserve history but the most individual record of the past is an oral history. As oral history projects grow in popularity, large colleges and libraries loan recording...