This year, the Woodville plantation turns 250 years old. It's one of the local locations that held slaves in the Pittsburgh ...

The process of colonizing North America transpired quickly between 1492 and 1620 with an increasing number of settlers ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Trump spent that month abolishing decades of diversity efforts throughout the federal government and beyond, removing many ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

The shellfish was considered food for the poor before Emmanuel “Manno” Bernoon, an emancipated Black man, started serving ...

An attempt to turn Oak Hill, the Loudoun County home of President James Monroe, into a state park nearly became history in ...