For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

More than three years after a plan for a National Juneteenth Museum was hatched, developers have secured land in Fort Worth.

Dave Drake, a 19th-century Edgefield County resident whose pottery is now on display in museums and private collections ...

read the Proclamation of Emancipation. They spoke from the steps of the Chenango County Court House in Westside Park. To memorialize this historic event, Drexler has created a painting depicting it.

Sometimes the connections we make between disparate things are less than obvious. For Debra Edgerton, the connection between ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

In 2013, the widely acclaimed artist Carrie Mae Weems — a charismatic artist, activist and educator, known for installations, videos and photographs that invite the viewer to reflect on issues of race ...

Smoke Jazz Club Announces March Line-up Including Terri Lyn Carrington's Tribute To Max Roach, Fred Hersch Solo Piano, ...

Lancaster Art Vault, 100 N. Queen St., and the Ware ... President Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed enslaved people of the Confederate states, and ...

“I’m especially excited that several of our artists are going to be live painting at the event ... after the end of slavery when the Emancipation Proclamation was enforced in Texas.

Eisenhower Fellowships will award its highest honor, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service, to business leader and philanthropist David Rubenstein for his extraordinary public ...

What started out as Negro History Week in 1926 has evolved into a month-long celebration. Now, Black History Month is ...