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

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 ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist Churches in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document ...

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.

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

Rael, who specializes in African American history, the Civil War era, and the history of slavery and emancipation, was among the guests on June 5 for Maine Public’s weekday call-in show Maine Calling, ...