U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest peak exactly 80 years ago. But the fighting, some of the deadliest of World War II, would rage on for a month.

Surveys of federally-funded cities and colored-coded maps set into motion discriminatory practices.Redlining is a lending ...

Luzerne County Community College is hosting an exhibit which explores the often-overlooked history of African American contributions as nurses, surgeons, and ho ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

From the beep of our metal detectors to the moment we unearth our finds, each episode brings you along on a treasure hunt ...

Flashback: Griffin and two other Black residents were denied service at Katz Drug Store in downtown Des Moines in 1948, per ...

The bitter opponents of the Republican Party in the South, on the contrary, are constantly fomenting strife and discord by ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

But the crew instead sailed the vessel north, where it was captured in ... helpless victims or stereotypical brutes. That’s ...

During their 20 minutes ... the FBI it sounded like "a civil war re-enactment." But a few months later, after a tipster pointed authorities to Wangler and Harrison's presence inside the Capitol ...

At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott ... enemies present in the U.S. during hostile occupation; those ...

SEATTLE — A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright ... ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision ...