Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

Territorial Colorado was still years away from statehood and had only about 34,000 citizens when the American Civil War tore ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in ...

The date selected for this event was between Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and Nov. 19, which is when President Abraham Lincoln gave ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

The second novel following Nathan Harris' bestselling "The Sweetness of Water," the story follows siblings emancipated from ...

For the purpose of this list, the only historical films that will be considered will be the ones that weren't made during the ...

“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

The park service has long tried to present a wide range of perspectives on historical events. The Trump administration could ...

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

More than five years after it was vandalized and removed, the pedestal that formerly held a bronze statue intended to commemorate Colorado’s role in the Civil War has been taken away from the west ...