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But one unique story of Black migration and land dispossession is now being told. That's the story of the Kingdom of the ...
In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...
In 1898, in the landmark case of U.S. v Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the birthright citizenship guarantee, ...
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.
More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...
As American demographics change—with growing racial diversity, educational polarization, and morphing religious ...
Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...
The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...
Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...
Beneath the weeds lie Charles Conrad, Nathaniel Ferris, Andrew Jackson, Charles Riley, William Johnson, George McClain, ...
Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...
Charleston, South Carolina blends hands-on history, engaging museums, and beachside fun to surprise even the most reluctant ...