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

The city witnessed a bitter controversy over the removal of a Confederate statue in Travis Park in 2017. It's been in storage at an undisclosed site ever since.

Leaders of state humanities councils throughout the country say federal funding cuts by President Donald Trump's administration will force them to scale back or eliminate celebrations next year ...

History: Florida paid dearly for its role in the Civil War, winding up both broken and broke for years afterward ...

Because there were so many of these paranormal reports happening, the church was actually featured in the Ghost Hunters ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

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 ...

Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story ...

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

This month sees the official launch of the Revolutionary War commemorations — the beginning of a year-and-a-half-long ...

The power of the movement, like that of the Confederacy, lies in its ability to mobilize disaffected segments of the ...