There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Luzerne County Community College is hosting an exhibit which explores the often-overlooked history of African American contributions as nurses, surgeons, and ho ...

In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Political interference in military leadership—especially dismissing generals and admirals based on ideological loyalty rather ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

European leaders meeting in Paris for emergency talks on Monday called for higher spending to ramp up the continent's defence ...

During the American Revolution, 12,000 Continental soldiers ... the Civil War, the most notorious camp was near Andersonville, Ga., where an estimated 30 percent of the 32,000 captured Union ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

It's unclear when Mohammad Usman, a former resident of Sambhal in Uttar Pradesh, was incarcerated. But being an anti-India ...

One hundred years ago, Chicago's Pullman porters who worked on the historic railway here helped form the first all-Black labor union in the U.S. In a FOX 32 special report, we take a look at how this ...