Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Trump appears bent on ridding schools of dangerous practices like critical thinking and an unsanitized study of history.

Join us on an adventure that takes us deep into the heart of history. With our trusty metal detectors in hand, we venture into areas steeped in American Civil War lore. Our journey is filled with ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.

All these moves are supposedly justified by the idea that the federal government does not play a legitimate role in education ...

The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...

Born enslaved in 1818, by the time of the Civil War Frederick Douglass was famous around the United States and Europe for his work in the abolition movement. So how did this famous orator learn his ...

Butler historian Bill May will speak at the Monday, Feb. 17, meeting of the Greater Pittsburgh Civil War Roundtable in Hampton. At 7 p.m., May will present “Capt. Thomas McConnell & Freed Slave ...

Fifty-five years of living in the Southeast during which we enjoyed lots of travel resulted in visiting most of the National ...