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

"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 ...

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

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.

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.

President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as "critical race theory" and other material ...

The executive order was among several the president signed meant to steer American schools and universities to adopt ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says anyone who wonders what the country would look like had the Confederacy won the Civil War ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...