The Betsy Ross flag is an early design of the flag of the United States, popularly attributed to Betsy Ross, using the common motifs of alternating red-and-white striped field with five-pointed stars ...

Attack on Fort Sumter - American Civil War Engraving 19th Century engraving of 'The Attack On Fort Sumter'. This print was published in 1878 in the book 'Our Country, Vol. III', On the title page it ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Juneteenth, an annual holiday on June 19, celebrates the freedom of enslaved people following the Civil War. Although the ...

By adding a contemporary red cap to Bowser’s original composition, Pyle creates a visual dialogue between the USCT’s fight ...

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As Israeli strikes kill top Iranian generals, take out air defenses and damage nuclear sites, many wonder if President Donald ...

California history is often thought of as synonymous with the railroad and the gold rush, but Black history is not. “Black ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

“That was the moment he said, ‘I'm dead,’” Marc Zicree, Serling expert and author of The Twilight Zone Companion, tells IGN. “He absolutely thought, ‘That's it. This is the end of my life.’” But ...

TOPEKA — The woman often credited with sewing the first U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been ...