In his new book Dangerous Learning , legal scholar Derek Black tells the story of the resistance to Black literacy in this ...

The granite monument honors James Armistead Lafayette, who is believed to have been a double agent during the Revolutionary ...

The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

In August, Austin, the son of David and Elizabeth Ingall of Temperance, learned he was one of just 10 U.S. students selected for the annual Youth Leadership Team by the American Battlefield Trust.

Through their collective achievements, these extraordinary women created lasting foundations for social justice, equality, ...

Georgia Southern University history professor Brian K. Feltman, Ph.D., is creating a powerful exhibit titled “More than a ...

The book under review, by Dr. Eve Ewing of the University of Chicago, is a manifesto arguing for educational abolitionism: ...

History is under threat. The call is coming from the White House In the latest assault on black history, President Trump ...

A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

The United Nations chief is urging regional and international leaders to prevent South Sudan from falling “over the abyss” ...