Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

Frederick Douglass, a native son of Talbot County and a leading African American abolitionist, writer, orator, and newspaper ...

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

Orange Park's Don Hillhouse, a "serious amateur" history researcher, scoured the National Archives for records of Union ...

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

The first military commander to oversee the occupation of New Orleans after the Civil War wasn't all good or all bad. But some things just stuck deeper in the collective memory.

One hundred years ago, Chicago's Pullman porters who worked on the historic railway here helped form the first all-Black labor union in the U.S. In a FOX 32 special report, we take a look at how this ...

G eorge Washington Williams was one complex dude. He was a soldier, a minister of the gospel, a lawyer, a politician, an ...

Welcome to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Nestled in the rolling hills of south-central Pennsylvania, Gettysburg is a town that ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...