The original idea of "sister cities" was most prominently described in 1956, when former World War II general and acting ...

The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks ...

Defense chief Pete Hegseth is restoring to West Point Military Academy a giant painting of rebel Gen. Robert E. Lee that shows him wearing his gray Confederate uniform and accompanied by a slave ...

The consequences of being caught in an attempted escape were so severe that most enslaved people never dared try. In Solomon ...

One West Virginia tavern has a particularly unique history with two American presidents, and has been a staple of Beckley's ...

MATEWAN, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Mingo County is dedicated to preserving the labor history. From the Matewan Massacre to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the museum works to ...

This passage, preserved in Bartolomé de las Casas’s abstract of the Diario, reveals how quickly Columbus translated “discovery” into domination. On his second voyage in 1493, he seized hundreds of ...

The story of slavery in the Americas from 1492 to 1619 cannot be told without Christianity. European conquest was justified through religious rhetoric, evangelization framed systems of coerced labor, ...

It is now clear that the main consequence of the 1619 Project’s attack on the American Revolution and Civil War was to disarm ...

An Army spokesperson said that under the revived instructions of President Trump, they were not prepared to ‘erase’ history ...

“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how ...