Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

Animals have played a multitude of roles in the City of London’s 2,000-year history, so there is a veritable menagerie of ...

Out of nearly 5,000 “Rosenwald” schools built to educate African American students in the south, approximately 500 remain.

By Farooq A. KperogiIn the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns that focus on the unique experiences, trials, ...

She recaps the infamous 1856 assault on Charles Sumner, a leading abolitionist ... to the bifurcated nation on the eve of the US civil war sounds ominous, I say. “It’s weird to find solace ...

The president of Harvard made an unjust decision in 1890, against his own directives, that silently smoothed the path for multitudes of much worse injustices to come – injustices that tore through the ...

The presidential biographer on tech titans, what Trump could learn from Lincoln and why she remains optimistic about America ...

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