A former nurse turns truth-teller, exposing how generations were misled about slavery, segregation, and the Civil ...

Federal workers are restoring an exhibit on the people once enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia despite an ongoing legal fight between the city and the Trump administration.

Teachers from across the country convened at National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Feb. 7, 2026, to create lessons ...

A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped A Nation," the 38th year congressman tells the story of how ...

The 313+ Ancestors Speak Project at Siloam Hope First Presbyterian Church preserves burial records dating to 1766, giving ...

In her new book, Leslie Stainton documents kidnapping, abuse and racial violence embedded in her family’s plantation history. Editor’s Note: February is Black History Month, a time to reflect on the ...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain was officially published in the United States on Feb 18. 1885.

New book uncovers John Brown's Adirondack years, family life, and the mountain landscape that shaped his vision.

American biographer Walter Isaacson explores the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of ...

Conservation and historical organizations are suing the Trump administration over National Park Service policies that the ...

Conservation and historical organizations are suing the Trump administration over recent National Park Service policies.

I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave ...