The latest personification of this aphorism is the governor of the state of Maine, Janet Mills. Cloning so many of her fellow ...

The Muscogee Nation's Supreme Court heard special justice law arguments relevant to a Freedmen case on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025.

The Southern secession from 1861-65 is portrayed as a “lost cause” by supporters and an act of evil by its detractors. Murray ...

During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) notes that the theme sets out to highlight and celebrate the ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

DeSantis exploits racism to fuel his politics, harming Black Floridians and erasing their history. DeSantis' primary concerns ...

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 ...

If the Trump administration changes Virginia Army posts, it would be a dishonor 'to real people who were deserving of respect ...

It will be known as the third Battle of Newtonia. In September of 1862, the American Civil War was in its second year. In southwest Missouri, the tiny area of Newtonia, south and east of Neosho, would ...

Names are tricky things. What was the federal holiday at the start of this week? Most people say “Presidents Day,” but there is no such animal. The real name is “George Washington’s Birthday.” But ...