Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

President Donald Trump's new war on diversity programs has renewed a long-running legal battle over the meaning the ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential ...

The Center for Public Integrity’s landmark project, 40 Acres and a Lie has taken second place in the annual Philip Meyer ...

Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of ...

"When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. The Bible tells us: 'How good and pleasant it is ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

It’s déjà vu all over again. The robber barons are back. The wealthy have their cottages by the sea in the Hamptons, in ...

Gilbert Bates was getting madder by the minute. The 31-year-old farmer was chewing the fat with a neighbor in November 1867.