Updegrove drew a parallel between now and the period beginning during Reconstruction when post-Civil War advances like the 13th Amendment were hurt by the rise of White Supremacy and Jim Crow.

But despite what Hollywood says, anesthesia is estimated to have been used in around 95 percent of all surgeries during the war, according to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Ether had ...

Artists and chair of Westchester's African American Advisory Board have spoken out against the sale of five acres at Stoney Hill Cemetery in Harrison.

Wesley’s pastor father, who migrated from Louisiana after World War II in search of more opportunmetities ... to a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute that ...

A White House spokesman did not respond to an ... killed on Jan. 6 by a U.S. Capitol Police officer. The details of the settlement remain unclear. The Babbitt family sued the government in January ...

Join The History Seekers on a rugged adventure into Alabama’s forgotten forests in search of a long-lost Civil War camp.

Harmony Baptist Church has placed a historical marker recognizing civil rights trailblazer Reverend Doctor William Jefferson White, who spent most of his life in Augusta.

An historical marker honoring the Rev. Dr. William Jefferson White, who fought for civil and religious rights, will be ...

A White Settlement hotel was damaged the morning of Saturday, May 3, when a sport utility vehicle crashed into the office, police said. Photos posted on the White Settlement Police Department’s ...

For the first time in the United States, Michigan State University is showcasing the works of Nabil Kanso, a Lebanese-American artist, at the Broad Art Museum. On view through June 29, the ...

the Canadian War Museum invites visitors into a moving journey through the untold post-war stories of veterans. Opening May 9, Last Voices of the Second World War brings to life the voices of some ...

The supposed corpse was a stage prop, but the tears and wails that greeted it were real. The civil war has killed an estimated 6,500 people, a majority of them civilians, and displaced nearly 1 ...