Boritt was born in Budapest in 1940 and survived World War II, although relatives were killed in the Auschwitz Nazi death ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...

It was a war fueled by colonialism, launched with the intent of humiliating a weaker country, fought in the name of revenge ...

The Blairsville Underground Railroad Museum shares the stories of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond ...

The story of Robert Smalls stands as a powerful reminder that Black history is not a side note to the American story but is ...

Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back ...

Abraham Lincoln's quote reminds us to work towards achieving our goals without procrastinating.

The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...

Dubbed the “baddest bitch in history” by Comedy Central, Bowser became known as one of the Union’s most daring Civil War spies. Literate and underestimated, Bowser worked as an undercover agent from ...

Black History Month should prompt more than commemoration. It should force us to ask why the figures we now hold up as icons were once dismissed as dangerous.

President Trump’s attempts to uplift traitors and racists are the latest in a centuries-old campaign against history by those ...