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 ...

The Lest We Forget Museum of Slavery features shackles, chains and other painful relics of the transatlantic slave trade.

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

The College of Charleston is kicking off Black History Month this week by releasing a calander of eventsBlack History Month, ...

And such is the case with the 14th Amendment, especially Section 1.