Presidents come and go from the White House every four year or eight years. But descendants of John Strother Ficklin, a ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to remove National Park Service exhibits that “inappropriately disparage” historical ...

Rashauna Johnson's new book, "Sweet Home Feliciana," moves beyond the big cities and digs into the past of the Feliciana Parishes. Johnson's research uncovers the rich and complex history of these ...

Few Chinese laborers have spoken out about the abuses they allegedly suffered while toiling abroad. Until now.

Members of Chicago’s first Black church rose to help enslaved people achieve their freedom because they knew theirs hung in ...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin would be the second Native cabinet secretary and some Native leaders say that is important to them.

Following the conclusion of a 10-year loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), wooden artifacts, including ship timber, from the São José slave ...

The award, one of the most prestigious in the field of American history, honors “scope, significance, depth of research and richness of interpretation.” ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is removing a rare slave ship timber from its “Slavery and Freedom” exhibit and returning it to South Africa.

Harvard University turned over the photos to the International African American Museum in Charleston after a seven-year legal ...

Judah P. Benjamin, a native Virgin Islander, was a Confederate during the U.S. Civil War, becoming its first States Attorney General before being promoted to Secretary of War and then Secretary of ...

Native American tribes across the West are trying — and in more and more cases succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back.