"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 ...

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 ...

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

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Donald Trump’s executive orders draw from a previous, dark period of American history pairing ethnic exclusion through mass ...