The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War ...

Juneteenth was celebrated for the fourth year at Bloomington's biggest park with a diverse crowd of vendors, live ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Setting aside the outlandish demand that two newspapers’ worth of journalists submit themselves to drug testing, it seems ...

xxii, 468 p. : 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. [430]-446) and index Introduction : Stalin at war -- Unholy alliance : Stalin's pact with Hitler -- Grand illusions : Stalin and 22 June ...

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...

THUMBS UP! To Juneteenth. Thursday marked Freedom Day in the U.S. and, throughout June, Central Illinois has taken to ...

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021. Federal and state government offices are generally closed as a result, along with banks and stock exchanges, but private businesses aren’t required to ...

As Americans celebrated Juneteenth, President Donald Trump raged at the newest federal holiday in a posting on his Truth ...

To earn a PhD, and then to go on and teach Early American History at the college level, I had to read many books written by ...

Wealthy families in the Gilded Age spent conspicuously, from fancy clothes to European palace-inspired mansions to lavish ...

Visitors are told to report signs that are "negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the ...