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.

When American Eagle Flight 5342 took off from Wichita, the Midwest city with a proud aviation history was glowing from a big ...

"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.

February is around the corner – an annual nationally-recognized reminder to explore and celebrate Black history. This month ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

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 ...

Liberia, often remembered for its turbulent past, holds the promise of a prosperous future. It's time for Liberia to reclaim its narrative and reintroduce itself to the world as the Jewel of Africa-- ...

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

More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...

Trump signed an executive order to combat “antisemitism” and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who ...

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