Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

It comes after US President Donald Trump spoke to both the Ukrainian and Russian leaders, and suggested negotiations to end ...

The militant group Hamas says it will free three Israeli hostages as planned this weekend. That's a reversal of its previous ...

The performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by Ledisi and a chorus of New Orleans students stirred audiences. It also ...

Black History Month by its very name encourages Americans to look back on past struggles and triumphs of Black Americans.

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and ...

Hospitals workers say at least 19 people were killed all but one of them women when a car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

Editor’s Note: In the wake of the worst aviation disaster in the United States in years, The Wichita Eagle, Kansas City Star ... Duggins, now 30 and a civil rights lawyer, was among the 60 passengers ...

Kiah Duggins was set to become a professor at Howard University School of Law this fall, according to the university.

Duggins, now 30 and a civil rights lawyer, was among the 60 passengers who died Wednesday night on Flight 5342 to Washington D.C. “She never stopped,” Dorothy Harpool, Duggins’ marketing ...