In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Many Americans are flocking to the country’s beaches this weekend to celebrate the Fourth of July. These sandy retreats hold ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

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The legal battle over President Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is far from over despite his major Supreme Court ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

Discover some of the architecture and history of Cleveland's Black churches, many of which congregations are trying to ...

To resurrect civil rights era cold cases, two reporters uncovered new sources and accessed forgotten government documents to ...