Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes ...
More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...
The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...
The International Context, a new digital archive that demonstrates the far-reaching involvement of European nations in the ...
Following the American Civil War and the abolition of the slave trade, there were still many people who wanted to keep racist rules and systems. This was particularly the case in the southern ...
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I am a cable news contributor and professor of journalism. The Republican Iowa Caucus is in the rearview mirror and the 2024 presidential ...
But it is a very real place and the site of a major historical event—a disastrous Civil War battle still remembered as one of the most significant routs in American history. Is there any insight ...
More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...