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 Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved ... the National Archives and the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. Once the research ...

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

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

“So much of the African American story ... state ports. Many people think the 54th Massachusetts was the first Black regiment to fight for the Union in the Civil War, Allen says.

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

Agencies are scrambling to comply with President Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion.

It should learn the lessons of its own past. The Supreme Court at its worst yields to the darkest spirits of the age. At its ...

Blow the lid off the joint but do it genteelly, won’t you? The Guthrie Theater is getting ready to bring the lights up on one of its most surprising productions — a guffaw-fest of a farce set during ...