On July 4, 1776, the hallowed Founding Fathers declared America’s independence. However, the only beneficiaries were white ...

Paul McCartney heard rumors of the wild goings-on in the Haight and visited on April 4, 1967. At the Fillmore Auditorium, he ...

During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) notes that the theme sets out to highlight and celebrate the ...

In 1941, the formation of the first group of Black military pilots and mechanics was underway in Tuskegee, Alabama where thousands of men and women trained to serve in World War II.

Part genealogy study, part haunting narrative, historian Mary Frances Berry’s new book, “Slavery After Slavery: ...