Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff thanks to a gesture of good will from Yankees to the Old South in 1913 ...

The Center for Public Integrity’s landmark project, 40 Acres and a Lie has taken second place in the annual Philip Meyer ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against slavery to conduct combat as a soldier and spy for the United States Army. She offered her services to a ...