The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

Researchers have begun to examine the hidden or repressed queer identities within a movement that was overtly hostile to the ...

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil war ...

In his new book, "Dangerous Learning," legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in this ...

The parallels between anti-abortion states cracking down on abortion seekers and providers and the slavery fight are hard to miss.

Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...