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

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 ...

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

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

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who tried to seize their guns and gunpowder.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Text on the stamps touted “Black/White Cooperation ... with helping free scores of enslaved people during the Civil War period. One historian, Fergus Bordewich, had called the edits ...