Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

America erased the histories of Black men like Henry Fordham, my great-great-grandfather. I was determined to find out the truth.

From forgotten relics to modern tools, Randy Caston, a Forged in Fire winner, shows how to reclaim and reforge axes that date back to the 1800s. His process honors both the craft and the story behind ...

Ronald Reagan’s administration is often described as the first to use the unitary executive theory to expand power.

Some claimed that Jackson was simply extending the policies of previous administrations; James Monroe had warned European ...

Several years before the Civil War broke out, William Cooper Nell, a Boston-born abolitionist and journalist, dedicated himself to an unheard-of task.

Over 125 years after his death, Newton Bateman is one of the unsung heroes in the fight for equal education in Illinois.

The Plymouth Historical Museum's new exhibit tells the story of George Jackson, a free Black man who married a white woman in ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one ...

During the post-Civil War years, Cummingsville was alive, if not lively. The log school was replaced by a traditional frame ...

For more than a century, people across the Ozarks have believed that untold wealth lies hidden beneath their feet. Spanish ...

Little is known about the two sets of skeletal remains uncovered during an excavation in downtown Frederick last week — only ...