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

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

By the time Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, his country had already birthed its original sin of slavery, whose legacy ...

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of ...

Rose Elder held her husband’s hands tightly as their red limousine eased down Magnolia Lane. They had met years earlier on ...

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

The National Park Service returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, ...

The First Zion Missionary Baptist Church is now the sixth historic marker in Old Town Bluffton. It originally provided a place of worship for former slaves that would last for generations.

A church connected to Lucy and Lois, documented as the final two enslaved people sold in New Haven in 1825, recently held a service to honor their stories and resilience.

Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on Tuesday, marking the International Day of Remembrance for its victims.