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.

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

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.

The 26-year-old Lucy was sent to the slave auction in Mississippi in 1844. “I was sold out of Natchez,” she remembered. “They had to pay $1,600 for me.” ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

You want to learn more about the Civil War, right? Of course you do. It is a significant part of U.S. history that continues to impact Americans today. From 1861 to 1865, bloody battles were waged ...

The Civil War officially ended on Aug. 20, 1866, but Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army 16 months earlier on April 9, 1865. Judge blocks Trump on birthright citizenship despite ...

He married a woman listed on census reports as Fanny or Fannie. He died in 1892 at about age 50. He was buried in a small cemetery that's now on the edge of the campus, overgrown and missing all ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but teaching about it, and the role slavery played in causing it, remains one of the most divisive subjects in American education. A new museum that's in the works in ...

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 ...