U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War. He would mesmerize a crowd by seemingly sucking saltwater into his growing belly. Then, when the man appeared to be on the ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

A contractor for Amtrak removed the final ruins of an 1866 rail bridge from the Susquehanna River last month, despite ...

After the Civil War, many former slaves left the South in search of better opportunities – otherwise known as the Great Migration. But there were those who stayed behind. And in West Feliciana ...

Unless you live in the state, you may have forgotten that Missouri remained in the Union during the Civil War. It’s an easy ...

Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most ... Consequently, Scandinavian immigrants after emancipation proved ...

Kofi Annan of Ghana becomes the first Black Secretary General of the United Nations. 1997—The notorious Robbens Island off the coast of South Africa, the prison that held legendary Black freedom ...

She tells us why this new policy is concerning health officials and could spread vaccine skepticism. After the Civil War, many former slaves left the South in search of better opportunities – ...

There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and ...

When Harriet Lankford’s children were young, they spent afternoons searching the family’s Alexandria, Virginia, property, ...

After the Civil War, the South’s economy ... as most prisons had been destroyed during the war. Previously, African-American slaves had been subjected to the punishments at the hands of their ...

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and ...