One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

But historians know very little about the individuals aboard these slave ships ... In 1841, as the American ship Creole traveled between Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, those on board ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn that he misrepresents the country’s past.

Celebrating Black history by visiting one of these seven Black museums is one the Blackest things you could do for Black History Month.

Rufus Estes served presidents, a princess, and world-famous musicians as a chef on Pullman cars before becoming one of the ...

By SETONJI DAVID The world set aside January 27 every year as International Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember one of the worst human tragedies of all times. The holocaust was a systematic genocide ...