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Wikimedia Commons The 1865 Freedmen’s Town Settlement at Buffalo Bayou Freedmen’s Town began in 1865 after slaves in Texas ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom embarked Tuesday on a two-day swing through rural South Carolina as the high-profile Democrat seeks to position himself as a leader for a party in rebuilding mode while ...

Nothing new about that. Austin is studded with scores of old rural cemeteries, some associated with churches, others with ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Scott Joplin was an early musician who transformed much of the landscape of popular music in the early 1900s.  Though many ...

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made ...

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.

Washington — Former President Joe Biden criticized "ongoing efforts to erase history" during a Juneteenth Celebration Service at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas — and ...

Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to ...