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

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 ...

Follow in the footsteps of the Buffalo Soldiers, who guarded parks and created trails in Yosemite, Sequoia, and Hawai’i ...

Sudan’s vicious civil war is nearly two years old. Over 150,000 people are dead, and 12 million displaced, in the world’s ...

UNICEF is on the ground in the Gaza Strip, expanding aid delivery for children caught in a catastrophic situation.

Efforts are underway to include the Dayton Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home on the Civil War Trails as it expands into southwestern ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

The US government has begun to shuttle immigrants from the United States to Gitmo, post photos of them in shackles, and lock ...

Mill State Park will offer an event that explores the hardships winter presented for soldiers of the Civil War on Feb. 22-23.

Washington’s Birthday has been largely forgotten as a distinct celebration, but its commemoration in Civil War-era Cambridge ...

As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...