The cemetery housing the twelve Civil War heroes and their families was adopted by Vietnam veterans, who ensure the upkeep of ...

Washington also took home the Golden Globe for the same performance, and the film won three Academy Awards in total – ...

On May 5th, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute held its annual fundraising gala. The event showcases ...

Dances With Wolves, Gettysburg, and Gone With the Wind are all among the greatest and most essential movies ever made about ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

We shed new light on historical black-white disparities in wealth and economic mobility by examining datasets of linked census records. First, we compare black and white men’s intra- and ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

“I will say, apartheid – terrible,” Trump told Ramaphosa, as he prepared to complain there isn’t more awareness of the plight ...

Erskine Henderson, an African American jockey, wins the Kentucky Derby on “Joe Cotton”—a horse trained by Alex Perry—an ...

“The Birth of a Nation” opened in Rochester’s Metropolitan Theatre on Jan. 9, 1916. “Already it has created a furore in ...