Illinois struck down laws that kept free Black people from entering the state in 1865, a year after the Illinois Colored ...

Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

The first shots of the trade war between the United States and Canada have been fired. Whether it escalates beyond the ...

The story of Black History Month begins in 1915. At this time, scholar Carter G. Woodson founded what today is called the ...

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

Although no Civil War battles took place in Rhode Island, a hospital in Portsmouth, Rhode Island played a large role in ...

As he celebrated the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865, Frederick Douglass emphasized that pervasive racial discrimination remained an obstacle to the attainment of equal ...

Once the arsenal of the Confederacy and a manufacturer of shells during both World Wars, Tredegar ceased operations for good ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Despite nearly 150 years separating the start of the Civil War and this young history buff’s birth, the fascination and passion runs deep.

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...