The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

A local filmmaker is holding open screenings of his original documentary, about Upstate New York’s role in the Underground ...

At the corner of Charles Street and Ferry Avenue in Camden, a New Jersey pastor has made it his mission to honor the Black ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

Once the arsenal of the Confederacy and a manufacturer of shells during both World Wars, Tredegar ceased operations for good ...

Jim Fisk was born in Pownal, Vermont. His father was a peddler. When Jim was eight years old his family moved to Brattleboro.

A record 222 Mela Special trains were deployed to safely transport crores of devotees to their respective destinations.

That the departure of Chin-Sieh-Yuan to Japan has practically ended hostilities is borne out by the fact that an armoured train containing fifty of Lu-Yung-Siang’s white Russians arrived at Shanghai ...

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