Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

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

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

Las Cruces Public Libraries hosts Black History Month events with a film screening and book discussions on African American ...

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.

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

Marshall, to name a few. Taking Confederate names off the sign boards at military bases is not a “woke” rewrite of history, as some in the Republican Party suggest. The biggest rewrite of post-Civil ...

Just in time for Black History Month, FamilySearch has announced expansion of a remarkable effort to gather genealogical information from cultures emphasizing oral transmission of family data.

Taking Confederate names off the sign boards at military bases is not a “woke” rewrite of history, as some in the Republican Party suggest. The biggest rewrite of post-Civil War history took ...

The question of citizenship was foremost on the minds of abolitionists and free Black people in the years before the Civil War. As historian Martha S. Jones describes in her book “Birthright ...