Explore the revolutionary act of saving money and building generational wealth by African American ancestors. Discover their ...

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

On a roadtrip through sleepy towns and coastal waterways, Tayari Jones unveils a history more relevant than ever.

The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox—dramatically illustrates the dangers of letting myth substitute for accurate history. For ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

That understanding includes an unvarnished view of the purpose of Confederate monuments. “For African Americans these ...

The candidate challenging Liberty’s mayor says he rolls his eyes at residents. He says the bigger issue is a group of ...

The silence of Black MAGA supporters in the face of Trump’s and Vance’s bigotry during the campaign has carried over to the ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor helped kick-start the southern colonies' embrace of the radical cause ...

The flag will be featured during Fleischer’s Auctions’ two-day spring premier auction, “Historical Americana and African American History,” which ... It marked the Confederate Army's last major ...