In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Leavenworth, Kansas, is nearly synonymous with prisons. But when CoreCivic announced plans to detain immigrants there, residents pushed back.

A sign honoring Nicodemus, the oldest and only remaining historic Black settlement west of the Mississippi River, which was founded in 1877, was damaged in the town of Ellis. The sign placed in ...

President Donald Trump has declared war on equality as an aspiration for American democracy in Kansas and the nation.

The power of Douglass’s words is so resonant that even now the 1852 speech gets recited in public settings, which is what will happen in 16 New Hampshire locations at noon on Saturday, June 28.

Three gunboats slipped up the dark Combahee River on June 2, 1863. Commanding one of them was Harriet Tubman. During that ...

The word Oread — as a name — was carted to Kansas in the mid-1800s by Worcester residents who resettled before the Civil War, ...

During the 1850s, the southern enslavers were definitely in the driver's seat as far as the national government was concerned. The decade started off with the ...

A sign honoring Nicodemus, the oldest and only remaining historic Black settlement west of the Mississippi River, which was ...

According to museum documentation, freed slave Matilda Wornall was able to successfully petition the court in Clark County, Kentucky, in 1850 to have her five children and grandchildren freed. At ...

The observances on Thursday come even as the Trump administration has been removing content about African American history from federal websites.