This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...

Like Atlanta’s unlikely journey to host the 1996 Centennial Olympics, for The Games in Black and White filmmakers George ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans ... A gray-haired white woman read a poem she wrote in the voice of an enslaved black man. Descendants of both the African-American founders and the white ...

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

The webpage's administrators temporarily changed an introductory paragraph to emphasize “Black/White Cooperation.” ...

In “The Girl in the Middle,” Martha Sandweiss uses the Peace Commission as a springboard to examine the transformation of the ...

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to ... inadvertently decentralized white vigilantism. Thanks to the Klan Act, black citizens were protected ...

A depiction of General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. A depiction of General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. HUM Images—Universal Images Group/Getty Images On March 27, President Donald Trump signed ...

From the last two-story outhouse in the U.S. to an actual fork in the road, here are New York's top roadside attractions — ...

U.S. forces liberated Nazi concentration camps 80 years ago this month. Among the liberators were Black, Latino, Asian American and Native American soldiers whose actions today are often forgotten.

Defining images of the ... for an end to the war in Ukraine - months later he welcomed President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Vatican. And, as a Spanish-speaking Latin American, he provided a crucial ...