The vice president is trying to downplay the leaked Young Republicans chat where members talked about sending their enemies to gas chambers.

A Telegram chat with Young Republicans leaders across the country was as disturbing as it gets.

Donald Trump has ordered a park dedicated to Civil War history to remove a photo of a formerly enslaved man.

Florida is about to wreck public health in the entire state.

Lindsey Halligan, who is in charge of overhauling the museum system, would prefer to focus on the future.

Donald Trump went on a bizarre rant about the museums in Washington, D.C.

Senator Bill Hagerty brought up the three-fifths clause out of nowhere.

This is the second Confederate memorial the Trump administration has brought back in 24 hours.

Linda McMahon is going to great lengths to defend Trump’s push for “viewpoint diversity” in schools.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Harriet Tubman is now DEI, apparently.

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.

Is the American experiment doomed?

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

In acknowledging slavery's role in the conflict, the presidential aspirant made clear the freedom she spoke about was that of the enslavers.

Researching public figures’ families is much easier than it used to be—but that doesn’t mean it’s inherently enlightening.

Two new books ask us to shift our attention away from the white vigilantes of Jim Crow and instead focus on what it meant for the survivors.