Grebien said the burials recall important lessons about the bloody 1861-1865 war to preserve the Union, which was fought between the North's Union Army and the Confederate States of America at the ...

The simple copper and cardboard urns gathering dust on shelves only had the name of each of the 28 soldiers — but nothing ...

We must become critical consumers of history again. Our present-day society demands it. We as black historians and consumers have a new black power. We finally have a platform to give our studied ...

Men, even great men, are not built from marble but from flesh and blood.

After the Confederacy's defeat, the "Lost Cause" narrative ... For some, the rapid changes of the past few years have been, like life for the Dutton family, a challenge. America's glass ceiling ...

This Congressional Gold Medal was awarded on December 17, 1863 to General Grant after his victory at Vicksburg. The battle of ...

Ahead of Kamala Harris’s expected concession speech, we speak to professors Carol Anderson and Michele Goodwin to discuss Harris’s historic campaign — and historic loss. “The Confederacy won,” says ...

Many people believe that slavery in Latin America was a benevolent institution. Several scholars and students think that ...

"Dixie," known as the Confederate anthem, was played at former U.S. President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a ...

The Battle of Droop Mountain during the Civil War was an infamous and bloody mark on the history of a newly formed state.

In 1990, former President George H. W. Bush declared November as National American Indian Heritage Month — now National Native American Heritage Month.