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

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

The ruins of a slave cabin still remain in South Carolina where Harriet Tubman led a raid of Union troops during the Civil War that freed 700 enslaved people.© Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via ...

President Abraham Lincoln, with young son Tad and Senator Charles Sumner, salutes a detachment of African-American Union ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

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

While WWII and the Vietnam War have been featured in many films, there are also excellent Revolutionary War movies like The ...

A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.

As a white woman raised in the south, The Devil’s Half-Acre has expanded my understanding of how debasing slavery was in the U.S., and, like no other, this book has deepened my sympathy for the ...

When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops ...

Harriet Tubman was a war hero. The defense secretary is wrong to consider stripping her name from a US Navy ship Harriet ...

The rules in Japan do not explicitly require that a woman take her husband’s name. But in 95% of cases that is how couples choose to comply with the law. “When we got married, everybody ...