In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Columbus Day and Presidents Day are now in the crosshairs as debate erupts over which holidays America should actually ...

Historian Adam Goodheart, in an interview with PolitiFact in August 2017, noted that a person could be (and often was) a "slave master" but not technically a "slave owner." ...

Trump's crackdown on immigrants bears alarming parallels to the fugitive slave obsessions of the pre-Civil War South.

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

Bakels said the Seminoles' tactic was to fall back, luring the soldiers into a trap. Then, according to accounts of the ...

The solid monthly job tallies that the White House has touted as a “Trump effect” are expected to fade as the president’s hardline immigration policies chip away at the supply of foreign-born workers.

Long known only as the site of Napoleon’s exile, Saint Helena is in fact a sanctuary of rare biodiversity, dramatic ...