The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

Historical and sociological perspectives reveal why certain societies or subgroups resist change, often rooted in cultural ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

There are 18 National Parks in Maryland as well as an additional 10 affiliated sites that partner with the National Park ...

Underground Railroad ... Civil War: The Civil War shut down revival meetings at the Lowe site to make way for Union soldiers camping there. They were there to guard the Northern Central Railway ...

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

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center ... of social injustice through war, racism, religious differences ...

“Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in the mass struggles for Black liberation, as well as an anti-war activist and ... that put forth the Underground Railroad was something called ...