The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

Mariposa California's original daily updated online newspaper is the premier site for news and information on Yosemite, Mariposa, California and United States ...

The Cape Fear's most famous Civil War battle took place at Fort Fisher in January of 1865. But another important battle was fought miles away on the grounds of the present Day Cameron Art Museum.

Organizers from nonprofit organization Here2Hear, will present “Black History: Learning from the Past and Inspiring the Future” at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in ...

The United States Colored Troops played a role in the history of Fort Fisher from the Civil War to World War II.

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, exactly 160 years ago. While the societal topic of race and the war’s deeply rooted issues still linger in the modern world in new ways, the bloodshed of battles that were ...

Tyrone D. Taborn, publisher of Career Communications Group, discusses the impact of military recruiters withdrawing from engineering conferences on national security and diversity.

On November 10, 1898, white supremacists led the only successful U.S. coup, overthrowing Wilmington’s Black-led government in the ‘Wilmington Massacre.’ Its full toll and legacy remain unknown.

In Arkansas, between 1868 and 1893, at least 87 Black men were elected to and served in the Arkansas General Assembly.

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...