At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black Civil War soldiers buried in Butler Cemetery.
The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...
Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...
We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff thanks to a gesture of good will from Yankees to the Old South in 1913 ...
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...
NHPR is honored to commemorate Black History Month with special programming reflecting on the African American experience.