Historians around the state are revisiting the nation's origin story with fresh eyes, centering on communities that have ...

Denton’s “Free Colored School” organized with a school board in Quakertown in 1866, one year after the Civil War ended.

Even in its earliest days, discord was part and parcel of American life. During the American Revolution, families were often divided between Patriots — pushing for American independence from Great ...

Despite efforts to rewrite history, activists are still pushing to remove Confederate symbols, a new Southern Poverty Law ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

The Coosaw Sea Island Cotton Heritage Preserve is one of the few sites in the region that contains visible markers of sea ...

Kingsley Plantation tells one of Florida’s most distinctive slavery stories. In the early 1800s, Zephaniah Kingsley ran this ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

An Israeli investigation into the killings of 15 Palestinian medics last month in Gaza by Israeli forces said it found ...