Cornish was Black. He likely didn’t know that the hospital had been founded two years before as Provident Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the nation’s first integrated hospital, a haven where ...

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

Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000. 1540: Henry VIII annuls his six month marriage to his fourth wife ...