Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

On the Friday morning before Donald Trump’s inauguration, employees at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division were ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern identity through tumultuous battles and ...

Stephen Budiansky’s new book on the Civil War’s most catastrophically bloody day, at Maryland’s Antietam Creek, is an unexpected departure for him. What no biographer should claim ...

Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.

He had built a home on the land before the beginning of the Civil War, but it was lost during ... a wing on each side of the home in the same historic style. The original part of the property ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, and other civil rights leaders are calling for a “massive resistance movement,’’ including meeting with corporate leaders, urging people ...

Recent local history books on Cincinnati’s frontier years, Bengals phenom Greg Cook and Coney Island are great additions to ...

For the three Latino kids transported to 1862 Mexico in Emma Otheguy’s latest novel, the outcome of the American Civil War hangs in the ... s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their ...

Marian Hopwood, the longtime president of the Vallejo Chapter of the Filipino-American National Historical Society and an executive assistant in the Vallejo City Unified School District ...