Why former Georgia football coach Vince Dooley spent time in retirement preserving American battlefields and studying Civil ...

Franklin County proclaimed July 18 as Zion Union Cemetery Day, recognizing the Mercersburg cemetery's 150-year history.

In 2005, several Black women from the Greater Washington Area were asked by officials at Washington, D.C.’s African American Civil War Museum to serve as hostesses for an event. Patricia Tyson (left), ...

Two and a half centuries since the US Declaration of Independence, the country can’t be all that proud of its actions around ...

From the very earliest days of independence, the struggle of African Americans for their rights has defined the idea of freedom in the United States.

Annual lectures will discuss work of writer and campaigner who ‘revitalised the anti-slavery cause’ in Britain ...

Washington in Wilkes County has long focused on the Civil War. Now, historians want to preserve the site of the 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek. Where exactly was the battlefield?

History came to life this weekend at the Honey Springs Battlefield as reenactors, historians and visitors gathered to honor ...

A local cemetery was recognized this week in honor of its sesquicentennial. The Franklin County Commissioners proclaimed ...

A dangerous myth exists today that acknowledging the history of slavery and the oppression and resistance of Black people is ...

A Supreme Court ruling preserved birthright citizenship, but Frederick Douglass shows why the debate was settled long ago.

Passersby might not pay much heed to the sculptures that make Kennedy Plaza home, but each carries with it a depth of history and a message, with the oldest dating to 1871. The Soldier and Sailors ...