President Trump has targeted museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the nation's tarnished history.

Harriet Tubman’s descendant is 'devastated' by the National Park Service’s decision to soften its language about the ...

Trump's threat to withhold federal funds because of "improper ideology" could have a chilling effect on the museum's ...

Making Black Freedom in the World" uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the struggle for justice.

A group of powerful anti-slavery advocates led by Theresa May issued a warning Tuesday, declaring that “millions of lives are ...

University of the West Indies history Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles spoke about reparations for chattel slavery in the ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

Calhoun emphasized the principle that the states were sovereign and independent and not merely the creation of the federal government.

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on ...

The National Parks Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the ...