Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

Also honored and recognized in a county joint proclamation was the late James Harden Daugherty, a long-time Silver Spring ...

In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

President Donald Trump's defense secretary can't simply snap his fingers and change Texas' Fort Cavazos back to Fort Hood. A ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

By Tracey Howerton Special to NKyTribune Have you ever written a letter to the President of the United States? Dr. Benjamin ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has hinted he would like to change the name of Fort Moore back to Fort Benning.

From New York state to Virginia and back to Cattaraugus County, the 37th New York Regimental Presentation Flag has a storied ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of ...

sits on the Georgia-Alabama border and is home to the Army Infantry School. It was named after Henry L. Benning, a racist judge and Confederate brigadier general who led a Georgia military unit in Gen ...