Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to ...

Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our ...

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

Gil Rose talks all about bringing Ulysses Kay’s "Frederick Douglass" back to life along with the work of other Black composers.

The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

From the Anti-Masons to Elon Musk's new America Party, here's a look at how third parties have made their mark through ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to have been completely lost to time—was recently discovered in an archival box ...