After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

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 ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict.

Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to reverse one outcome of the Civil War ...

The irony of the 1850s is lost on Evers, a Democrat; the same party that defended slavery then is party that seeks to employ ...

Peter R. Kolchin, Henry Clay Reed Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware and recipient of the University's Francis Alison Award, died at home on Jan. 13, 2025. The cause of death ...

A letter writer who compared Gov. Evers’ defense of the economic importance of undocumented workers with southern Democrats ...

Second, well into the 20th century, white Europeans born on U.S. soil -- whose great-grandparents may have come on the ...