We must refuse the shame that seeks to make us forget what we glimpsed, however briefly, in the streets in 2020, writes ...

Some great TV shows use the American Civil War as a backdrop or as a major narrative pillar. Here are the best ones.

If the justices take up a case on Virginia’s felon disenfranchisement law, they’ll be burrowing back to Reconstruction-era ...

The Library of Virginia will present a free talk by historian Jody Lynn Allen on her new book about a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights in the 19th century on May 29.

On this date the founder of the settlement which would grow to be­come the city of Chicago, Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable, sold his property and left the settlement. The Haitian-born frontier trader ...

Chernow specializes in big American lives. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington, and another of his ...

The nonprofit news organization that produces Mother Jones and Reveal was selected as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a collaborative investigation with the Center for Public Integrity about a ...

Amid the daily tumult of President Donald Trump’s second term, the political struggles over his economic agenda and his ...

Georgetown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies (CSSL), which researches the history of enslavement, ...