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." ...

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.

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 ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

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.

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 ...

Opened in 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., tells America’s story through the lens of Black experience. That story, and the NMAAHC itself, is for ...

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 ...