In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump's second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency's second day on Tuesday.

the skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who didn’t know the Civil War had ended. “The red glare from the eight burning ...

The civilizational inflection point in our cold civil war happened sometime between Donald Trump’s second inaugural address on Monday and the end of his new presidency’s second day on Tuesday.

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

In the weeks following Garfield’s death, on Sept. 19, 1881, new civil service reform groups sprang up from Massachusetts to California. It seemed unlikely that Arthur, a creature of the spoils ...

States and advocacy groups for immigrants have filed at least eight lawsuits around the country challenging President Donald Trump's executive order.

President Donald Trump is moving with light speed and brute force to break the existing order and reshape America at home and ...