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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

Second, well into the 20th century, white Europeans born on U.S. soil -- whose great-grandparents may have come on the ...

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

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 ...