"Living Legacies," a celebration of Black history, took place Saturday at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens.Guided by historians ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns ...

Celebrating Black history by visiting on these seven museums is one the Blackest things you could do for Black History Month.

As the White House ignores congressional mandates, the conflict raises questions at the heart of the nation’s founding ...

The Civil War was raging and the vessels were filled with Union troops, many of them from the 2nd South Carolina Colored Infantry, on a mission to strike Confederate plantations. There to guide them ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.