NEW YORK (AP) — Books on slavery, the justice system, poverty and gender identity are among this year’s finalists for J.

Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a book detailing the struggle that former enslaved people ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.

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

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

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

The 25th president came to support them only as a means to trade reciprocity.

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 ...

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