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Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...

Several milestones are being celebrated this month by descendants of important Black figures from Maryland who helped shape ...

Inspire kids to learn about the contributions of Black people not just during Black History Month, but all year long.

A fraud scandal has made the Somali community in Minnesota a focus of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants. A fraud scandal has made the Somali community in Minnesota a focus of the ...

Last week, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office assisted a homeowner whose old tenant violated his lease by renting the unit on Airbnb, spoke to a man who talked to coworkers about making a “ghost gun” ...

Chicago native Pope Leo XIV used his first annual address to urge peace in language and actions Credit: Stefano Spaziani via AP Photos Pope Leo XIV – the first American to lead the Vatican – used his ...

As jazz music, which began in Black communities, spread across the nation in the 1920s, more than 60 cities adopted rules limiting or outright banning it in dancehalls. Clergy and civic reformers ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The late Gore Vidal once recounted how Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative intellectual and longtime editor of Commentary, was flummoxed ...

Indiana state Senator Mike Gaskill, a Pendleton Republican, declared on Thursday that a "second civil war has already started" in the United States, as he urged his colleagues to back an ultimately ...

This story has been corrected. LONDON — Another veteran of the American Civil War who died in obscurity in England is finally receiving recognition of his service thanks to the longtime efforts of a ...