The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

The exhibit begins in the museum's Visitor Center, with Tallahassee during the Civil War Era, and ends in the historic Riley House next door. It examines what life was like for ne ...

Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

Carter Woodson was a tireless promoter of Black culture who planted seeds for what became Black History Month a century ago ...

Dr Yanqiu Zheng is a historian of China in the world and is the Associate Director of Asia and Pacific Programs at St. Lawrence University’s Patti McGill Peterson Center for International and ...

Recent local history books on Cincinnati’s frontier years, Bengals phenom Greg Cook and Coney Island are great additions to ...

In the 1860s, two brothers from Connecticut endeavored to photograph veterans of the American Revolution who could have ...

I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.