The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

After the Civil War, many Black settlers found their way to southwestern Wisconsin where they successfully integrated and ...

He did not speak as he exited the prison. Peltier, 80, had become a global symbol for Indigenous rights after his 1977 conviction for murder, with groups like Amnesty International and supporters ...

In the first portion of Mothership's three-part interview with Hadi, he shares with us how life was like in Syria before the civil war, the brainwashing ... for Lebanon. "I did not foresee from ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

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 ...

Imagine a world where the Civil War never happened. Slavery would have ended a century earlier than it did, sparing the country decades of ... a plan to free enslaved Black Americans in the years ...