We strive for peace, but history teaches us that sometimes war is necessary. It is impossible yet to know if the Israeli and ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

Times of pain and peril are also times of possibility. Times of division are times to dream. When billionaires bow to a would-be dictator, everyday Americans have the responsibility to take a stand on ...

Dr. Vincent Venturini has produced a courageous, well-written, well-documented and well-sourced book on the lifespan of Arabelle Daniel of Jackson.

Acknowledging the historical link between the end of Black slavery in the U.S. and the creation of the State of West Virginia ...

A plaque honoring famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman was unveiled Monday in the area near her birthplace on the Eastern Shore, ...

Donald Trump’s new executive order pressures national park rangers to whitewash American history, turning honest storytelling ...

When we retreat from reasoned, evidence-based scholarship on important subjects like science or history, the online fever ...

He also announced that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals during the Jim ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Davis, captured by Union forces, was imprisoned at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va. Hood had surrendered to Union forces in Natchez, Miss. My primary celebration on Thursday, the 160th anniversary of the ...

A physically and intellectually imposing figure whose heart “bled for abolition, racial justice, and constitutional democracy,” Sumner pushed U.S. presidents and Senate colleagues alike to end slavery ...