The president is likely to tap into his worst instincts when deciding whom to, quite literally, put on a prominent pedestal.

Charles H. Walker's family is committed to preserving and sharing his diary, which has entries from September 1861 through ...

In 1990, the closure of the Virginia State Penitentiary ended nearly 200 years of holding state inmates in downtown Richmond.

The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...

The statue of Captain John O’Donnell, an 18th century merchant who enslaved dozens of Black people on his Maryland plantation ...

For more than a century, Kappa Alpha threw “Old South” parties. They were formal affairs where the Confederate battle flag was flown and fraternity brothers dressed in replica Confederate gray ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

When the last Alexander Neill died in 1911, the community mourned the passing of three men who helped shape the history of ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums ...

Trump's threat to withhold federal funds because of "improper ideology" could have a chilling effect on the museum's programming.