Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

We found a Civil War fire pit in the woods - and what we pulled from it will blow your mind. With ash still intact after 150 years, we also uncovered bullets, buttons, and relics possibly linked to ...

Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...

The National Park Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad. For years, the NPS’s page on the ...

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

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

The webpage's administrators temporarily changed an introductory paragraph to emphasize “Black/White Cooperation.” ...