Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recently, we wrote about messed-up historical facts, and members of the BuzzFeed Community suggested some of their own in the ...

Re “Trump’s Politics Are Changing How History and Civics Are Taught” (news article, Nov. 7): As the historian John Hope Franklin once observed, “The writing of history reflects the interests, ...

On October 13, 1775, America’s Continental Congress passed a resolution to establish the present-day U.S. Navy with a “swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns and a proportionable number of ...