Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Trump's order warned of "tangible and significant consequences" for those involved in the ICC's actions, with Khan emerging as a primary target. The court's president condemned the sanctions, and U.N.

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...

The question of citizenship was foremost on the minds of abolitionists and free Black people in the years before the Civil War ... South Bend and an associate editor of the American Studies ...