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 ...

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 in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue ...

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

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

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

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

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

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.