Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

Newmark's book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons ... to serve as a surgeon in the U.S. army. During her research for her 312-page book ...

The military records show that Melvin Bean, Samuel Blalock, John Burns, Albert D.J. Cashier, Lyons Wakeman and Frank Thompson fought on American battlefields during the Civil War. Research shows ...

Music clearly played a starring role in the civil rights ... and the war in Vietnam. On "Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna ...

February is Black History Month in Canada. Check out this list of buzzworthy works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black ...

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...