Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

There’s been a lot of war in my lifetime. My birth in October 1939 came a month after German Chancellor Adolf Hitler actually ...

Plant your feet anywhere in Charleston's historic district and know that the city would not be what it is today without the ...

Services appropriate to the great calamity which has befallen the nation will be observed at the First Congregational Church ...

At one time or another, we’ve all heard the preamble to the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be ...

Steven Spielberg has one of the greatest careers in Hollywood, but Lincoln is without a doubt his greatest achievement.

A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the ...

Travel through Corinth was difficult at best in the mid-nineteenth century. The Hudson River was navigable only a few months ...

For historian Charles Perkins, Waco and McLennan County’s 11 post-Civil War freedom colonies, and the 28 churches that grew ...

It caused the Robber Barons to murder union organizers and ultimately crash America into the Republican Great Depression in ...

Wikimedia Commons/Waud, William, -1878, artist General Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign Sherman’s march didn’t end at the ocean.