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 ...

Rod Serling went from the world of sci-fi with The Twilight Zone to the Western with The Loner. The result is an under-appreciated and mostly forgotten high point of his career.

Hours after "Black Lives Matter" was spray-painted on monument for "North Carolina's Civil War Governor," H.K. Edgerton stood with a Confederate flag, telling those passing by why he wanted it to ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized battle flag. Minnesota won a Confederate battle flag from Virginia ...

Rewriting history was the goal. Mary Anna Lee, the widow of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, wanted a version of her husband’s life told. So she gave exclusive rights to prominent sculptor Edward ...

Mississippi became the last state to remove the Confederate battle flag from its ... a 38-year-old Black man whose art focuses on ... Before the Civil War, few states had official flags.