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 ...
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
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 ...
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...
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.