This Saturday, Nov. 23, at 11 a.m., the Jefferson County Museum will opening an extension of its Reconstruction exhibit and host a related author talk. As the final ...

Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in ...

Maria Herrick Bray lived a life of influence through the second half of the 19th century and opening decades of the 20th, a ...

Atlantic City resident Eli Gbayee survived a harrowing childhood in the First Liberian Civil War. Now, he focuses on ...

A task force of lawmakers and historians is recommending that Illinois create a full-time commission to commemorate the ...

Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist who helped thousands escape the bonds of enslavement, has been posthumously awarded the rank ...

A history course created amid the upheaval of the Black Lives Matter movement invites students to have honest conversations ...

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was ...

Netflix features many movies that deal with civil wars in different countries. They educate you about the history of that place while also giving you ample space to connect it with your own history.

[39] Perman (2010) says historians are of two minds on why millions of men seemed so eager to fight, suffer, and die over four years: Some historians emphasize that Civil War soldiers were driven by ...

The L.A. Zoo is staying open after dark most nights through January during this delightful new take on its light-up holiday tradition. The event’s “Animals Aglow” edition has gone all in on ...

Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend ...