Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

A local filmmaker is holding open screenings of his original documentary, about Upstate New York’s role in the Underground ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential ...

(Library of Congress) Still reeling from the carnage of the Civil War with the American South in ruins, Brushett said there was no appetite to expand northward and the bill died without ever ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, said Monday that he was now the acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for ...