Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

With the Combahee River Raid of 1863, Harriet Tubman earned her nickname "Moses" all over again—and became the first woman in ...

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have ...