Deep in the woods lies a forgotten plantation-era slave cemetery, where generations of enslaved people and their descendants were buried. While exploring the site, researchers also uncovered evidence ...

A newly published database includes hundreds of plaques, signs and pamphlets the National Park Service has flagged for review ...

John Steuart Curry's "Tragic Prelude." In October 1859, a small town at the junction of two rivers became the focal point of one of the most dramatic and consequential events in American history. John ...

The Gray House' highlights a female-led spy network from the Civil War. Learn about the real Elizabeth Van Lew, Mary Jane ...

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, March 11, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Richard Carwardine, author of Righteous Strife: How Warring ...

Historians compare today's polarized politics and federal immigration enforcement to the intense debates over fugitive slave laws in the 1850s, revealing striking parallels.

Neicy DeShields-Moulton researched her family's past after discovering it was a taboo subject due to the pain of slavery. Her research traced her lineage to the Hampton Plantation in Maryland, where ...

A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, when a remnant from ...

The American Civil War didn’t start suddenly in 1861 - it was the result of decades of tension slowly tearing the country apart. As the U.S. expanded westward, every new territory reignited the ...

A new film festival is using storytelling to reflect on a difficult chapter of American history.

Freedom papers were carried by free Black Americans before the Civil War ...

Prime Video's historical drama tells the story of real-life Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, but it fills the rest of the space with imagined details and too many plots and subplots.