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

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Renowned documentarian Ken Burns spoke about the nearly 10-year process of creating his latest film, "The American Revolution ...

Kings and Generals launches its animated historical documentary series on the American Civil War by asking the essential ...

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

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

Join us as we step back into history at a Civil War Confederate camp alongside dedicated reenactors from the 48th Alabama ...

In this guest column, former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial argues that the Trump administration's actions related to museums ...

Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...

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 ...

The deep history of the Penn Center, a former school for enslaved West Africans, and its connection to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.