The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

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President Trump started the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not ...

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A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

A new exhibit developed by the Museum of African American History I Boston & Nantucket (MAAH), Black Voices of the Revolution: Liberty, Emancipation, and the Struggle for Independence will explore the ...

Adams, formerly Fort Lee, was in 2023 the first Army base to be named for Black Americans. Now, it'll be the first named for ...

Each June, communities across the United States gather to celebrate Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "nineteenth”, as the end of slavery in the U.S. But few people know the full history of the end of ...

Juneteenth honors June 19, 1865, when Union forces reached Galveston, Texas after the end of the Civil War and enforced the Emancipation ... a place known far more for its central role in the American ...

An African American man from Albemarle County who served in the Revolutionary War will be honored with a new highway marker in Virginia. After the war, Private Shadrach Battles returned to ...