In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

An explosion at a chemical plant near Seville sent a huge pillar of smoke over the city and prompted Spanish authorities to ...

Miami native and historian Edda L. Fields-Black has won the Pulitzer Prize for History for her book "Combee: Harriet Tubman, ...

The remarkable success of the movie “Sinners” has sparked a renewed interest in how the two communities wrestled with life ...

It was November of 1967, and the United States was in the midst of building up its forces in Vietnam. Throughout the month, American troops struggled to secure strategic areas in the surroundings of ...

While the Tuskegee Airmen have become icons in the history of American aviation, fewer people know the story of Bessie ...

John Geoffrey Fairley was one of a small group of photographers tasked with documenting the conflict for Australian audiences ...

Star Wars: Empire at War is special. There was this little window of time where legendary film franchises were investing heavily in the real-time strategy genre, and thank the Force that they did ...

During the Walker War and Tintic War, from 1853 through 1856, Black Hawk saw more of his people killed and driven off their lands. The insults and contempt for the Indians displayed in the encounter ...

WASHINGTON -- The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, commonly known as the "Six Triple Eight," were honored Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a ...

hosted a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony to the members of the “Six Triple Eight” battalion — the only Black, all-female unit to serve during World War II. The move came after a long ...