The Freedom of Information Act of 1966 (or FOIA) was the result of a struggle by Congress and private business for information from the executive branch.

Seventy-four years ago today, lawmakers passed an amendment to the U.S. Flag Code.

The U.S. Department of Education now recognizes biliteracy as a mark of educational excellence, which may mean that bilingual education is coming back.

A historian of Latin America, and a victim of two dictatorships, Galeano was also inevitably a historian of the colossus to the north.

Megan Kate Nelson, a historian of Civil War and the American Southwest, is behind the (Un)Catalogued Column for JSTOR Daily.