The German constitution outlaws the former Nazi swastika and other remnants as “symbols of anti-constitutional organizations.

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of an anti-emancipation woman who was herself a minority The post Slave ...

Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues. Story by Kate Clifford Larson, Brandeis University • 2mo.

Local News Statue honors once-enslaved woman who won freedom in court nearly 80 years before Civil War Elizabeth Freeman shed the chains of slavery 241 years ago, on Aug. 21, 1781.

This newest Fugitive Slave Law incensed most New Englanders, but one Brunswick woman determined to “do something.” Harriet and her husband Calvin Stowe. Professor Stowe taught at Bowdoin College.

Thursday’s burial marked the first time a Civil War veteran has been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery since 2018. Bender received Hart’s burial flag on behalf of her family, and she ...

Lebanon Civil War Doc ‘Green Line’ Uses Figurines to Confront a Woman’s Violent Childhood Trauma. Writer-director Sylvie Ballyot told a Locarno Film Festival event that her protagonist "had ...

The Civil War started in April 1861 and raged for over four years. From Fort Sumter to Appomattox and beyond, here are the most basic facts you need.

In “Let Us Descend,” author Jesmyn Ward follows a young enslaved woman’s journey from the Carolinas to Louisiana in the pre-Civil War South. Keep KCRW Independent. KCRW is here to provide you with ...

Two years ago, Rachel Bender inherited paperwork that showed she was the great-great niece of Isaac C. Hart from Massachusetts ...

On the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, we present this commemorative issue featuring Atlantic stories by Mark Twain, Henry James, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne ...