D.C.’s unique status may come down to a secret meeting between Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about.

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

It commemorates the announcement of emancipation to enslaved African Americans in Texas in 1865. On January 1, 1863, ...

June 19 is a U.S. national holiday known as Juneteenth. It combines the words June and Nineteenth, the day in 1865 on which ...

From Montezuma’s fall to the discovery of the Higgs boson, this week in history spans Aztec tragedy, American independence, ...

From a battlefield in Guilford County to lyrics in the blockbuster Broadway hit Hamilton, Greensboro's namesake is prominent figure in U.S. history.

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

TALLAHASSEE - America's first president is in the Florida Capitol Building. Indeed, a statue of George Washington will be on ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

On Juneteenth, I draw strength from the rich history of Black communities’ struggles for environmental justice.