The book’s title, In the Light of Dawn, references the Dawn Settlement, a hopeful name given to a community founded largely ...

The performance from the 37-year-old rapper sought to tell a story of black Americans and their place within US history, and ...

The term comes from the 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a slave perceived as too passive toward the white community, particularly the family who owns the plantation where ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

Museum London played host to a panel discussion of six museum curators and historians who shared details about the work their ...

Hurricanes and disease have already taken a tremendous toll on those fragrant trees, not to mention development demand for ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

I was driving through Central Florida on U.S. 301, so I just HAD to stop at the Orange Shop in Citra. It was as if my car was ...

If you have a disagreement with your neighbor today, you might head to small-claims court. In 19th-century rural America, ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...