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 ...
They also tackle a frequent critique of reparations, which is that slavery and colonialism happened centuries ago. Yet their effects continue to harm Black and Native communities generations later.
Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...
One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...
In the book, “Slavery After Slavery," Dr. Mary Frances Berry, who is an acclaimed historian, educator and activist, writes about the court cases of several children who were forced to work and ...
Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...
The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the ... Back in the American Civil War, the American military founded its first aerial force, the Union Army Balloon Corps.