Throughout history, the Black voice has never been silent.

The descendant of two of the most iconic civil rights advocates in American history was front and center of a discussion hosted on-Island this past week. Last Thursday the Union Chapel hosted Kenneth ...

Because the 2023 history standards tell the full story of Virginia history, more Virginians see themselves in history than ...

V ERNON, CT — The New England Civil War Museum in Vernon has been added to the Connecticut Freedom Trail, which commemorates ...

Making The Civil War: 25 Years Later. Special | 28m 19s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

But patriotism’s home base clearly is the United States. Fully half of Americans think their country is the best on Earth, ...

The Trump administration will likely lose those cases, thanks to the strong American tradition of jury resistance.

He also announced that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals during the Jim ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Each June, communities across the United States gather to celebrate Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "nineteenth”, as the ...