Remembrances are happening January 31 and February 1, marking the 65th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. The building ...

A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

NHPR is honored to commemorate Black History Month with special programming reflecting on the African American experience.

Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.

The executive order was among several the president signed meant to steer American schools and universities to adopt ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Donald Trump’s executive orders draw from a previous, dark period of American history pairing ethnic exclusion through mass ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...