Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...

A new exhibition at Fort Point in San Francisco, organised by the non-profit For-Site, features works by 16 artists and a ...

Born in Maryland to free Black American parents, Benson had emigrated with his family to the West African colony at the age of 6. By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the ...

A new Civil War trail sign has been installed in Plymouth to honor African-American soldiers who served in the Civil War. The dedication ceremony, held on Satur ...

Archaeologists in Virginia unearthed four skeletons, including one with a bullet in the spine, and three amputated legs.

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Glenn Smeltzer stood with pride in Westmoreland County Courthouse Square on Saturday as he and his son watched a ceremony a ...

The painting is called "The Explosion" and is one of 11 works inspired by the Syrian war being shown in the Catholic cathedrals of northwest England and Wales in an exhibition called "Portraits of ...

Heather Khalifa for The New York Times The Education Department has not always determined that Native American mascots violate civil rights, especially if investigators do not identify harm to ...