Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

Jones describes in her book “Birthright Citizens,” the question of citizenship was foremost on the minds of abolitionists and free Black people in the years before the Civil War. Meeting in ...

Newmark's book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons ... through Abbott's archival papers and journals at the Toronto Public Library ...

Feb. events include the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry reading, and a free PPAC program celebrating musician and activist Randall Ashe.

From USAID to the U.S. federal payment system, Musk is spearheading plans to audit and cut multiple government agencies ...

His research and teaching focus on the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of the early United States from its early struggles through its near dissolution during the Civil War. His ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

Over the course of 87 years of nearly ceaseless activity, Higginson had been a teacher, minister, state legislator, fiery ...

The International Context, a new digital archive that demonstrates the far-reaching involvement of European nations in the ...