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 ...

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

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

The Belleville community in Suffolk paid homage to its roots as a historical marker telling the story of William Saunders Crowdy, a runaway slave during the Civil War, was unveiled Wednesday.

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

Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia ...

A man was arrested Tuesday in connection with the assault of a female in Elizabeth City in March.

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic ...

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

One of Britain’s lesser-known islands, just 10 miles from Devon, has a dark and unknown history filled with links to piracy, ...

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