Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

From delivering the paper to picking it up at the corner bodega to waging advocacy battles in its pages, readers from around the country recall their ties to The Jersey Journal.

On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the course of history. Joseph ...

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...

Korematsu received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1998. He died in 2005 at age 86 ...

Trump has made fighting what he deems antisemitism a major part of his new administration, nominating New York congresswoman ...

The former Hawaii congresswoman isn’t just unqualified to be director of national intelligence, she’s a political opportunist ...

NHPR is honored to commemorate Black History Month with special programming reflecting on the African American experience.

The history of the executive order shows how far the U.S. has strayed from its own Constitution, which dictates that the ...

Below is an abbreviated history of everyday objects purchased during the Civil War Era. It was shared by Historian James Ayers, and taken from a 1939 Catskill Mountain News.