Conness, a U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869, was a leader in passing the 14th Amendment. And Trump’s attempt to ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...

In 1888, struck by the number of orphans she was continuing to find around Atlanta, she founded the Carrie Steele Orphans Home.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...

Historical narratives have long misrepresented the stories of the Black people in America. Black representation has often ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...