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

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

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

Zaakir Tameez chose a valiant subject, but his treatment of Charles Sumner mistakes an American idealist for an intersectional champion of the modern left.

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

What is Memorial Day and how has it evolved from its Civil War origins? The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American slavery.

Foner refers to the Civil War, as had abolitionists at the time, as the “Second American Revolution.” For Black people, one might say it was the first.

When Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, abolitionists hailed pumpkins as a symbol of virtue and the opposite of mmoral Southern farming.

Bids for the “Civil War & African American History: Wm. T. Sherman Collection” auction, which runs Tuesday and Wednesday, are to be taken both in-person and in advance.

Harriet Tubman, the spy: uncovering her secret Civil War missions Tubman’s work didn’t end with the Underground Railroad. As a nurse in the Union Army and a spy against the Confederacy, she ...