In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished ...

The final resting place of Civil War Gen. A.P. Hill has been anything but that, as his remains were put in the ground, dug up and moved three times in the 19th century. Then, when the city of ...

He also announced that he would restore the names of all Army bases that were named for Confederate generals during the Jim ...

The state straddled a fault line of Union and Confederate influence, and Civil War lore runs deep in its fields. Burials like this one – quick, secretive, unrecorded – were common in 1863.

Michele Samuels, Detroit Golf Club's first Black female president, was inspired by her great, great grandfather who led a resistance by former slaves.

The path forward is neither naive appeasement nor reckless regime change. It is strategic democratic pressure combined with calculated covert support. Opinion.

By Clyde “The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; he offered his voice, the earth melted.” (Exodus 46:6). Preface, 1876 History of the Exhibition: “the close of the first century of American ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...