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 ...

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

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

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

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

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 ...

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

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