How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

Stay or run? Let’s not presume this is a simple question or that everyone’s situation is the same. But I know who my heroes ...

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Besides purging "improper ideology" from Smithsonian facilities, Trump directed the Department of the Interior to determine ...

African American farmer James Warfield and his family were living freely on 13 acres of land above the Mason-Dixon line, ...

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Will Smithsonian employees be sent to gulags? Will the National Museum of African American History and Culture close?

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...