Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

With nothing planned at Locust Hill African Cemetery for the 160th anniversary of the end to the Civil War, not that such a ...

As the nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of the War for Independence, the contributions of Black patriots are at risk ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

Union Heights, a historic Black settlement community in North Charleston, SC, has been poised for transformative ...

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

A Concord man is making sure that the contributions of people of color during the Revolutionary War do not go unnoticed.

The case asks why our government should expect women to tolerate second-class citizenship while bleeding to death in combat.

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when ...

White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors ... the president to allow Black men to join the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black ...

A looming April 20 deadline could determine whether the federal government invokes the Insurrection Act to deploy active-duty ...