The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

The parallels between anti-abortion states cracking down on abortion seekers and providers and the slavery fight are hard to ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia ...

Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...

In his new book, "Dangerous Learning," legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in this ...

A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the assault of a female in Elizabeth City in March.

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the ... Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps.