The last time the United States expanded its territory—gaining the Northern Marianas and some other Pacific islands—President Donald Trump was just a year o ...

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

The history is complicated, but the overall principle is simple: Slavery helped the United States become ... in America. Institutions coming clean about how they owned enslaved people or otherwise ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

No other president, Republican or Democrat, has ever used a Black History Month proclamation for such crass self-promotion.” ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

Sometimes, dignity can come with something as simple as a name tag. In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car ...

Harriet Tubman has long been known as a conductor on the Underground Railroad leading enslaved Black people to freedom. Less ...

President Donald Trump has said that ... that was meant for the children of slaves. This was not meant for the whole world to come in and pile into the United States of America,” Trump told reporters ...

Black History Month honors the achievements and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history, and it’s a great time ...