BEIRUT (AP) — Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran’s Evin ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

New York Times journalist Kevin Sack says there was a “Charleston before 2015 and a Charleston after 2015″ in a discussion ...

Travel influencers Hudson and Emily Crider have visited all but one of the countries they set out to visit. They paused their ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

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

Dylann Roof has a legitimate claim to the heritage that Nikki Haley upholds for its devotion to family and tradition, traits ...

Kevin Sack, who shared in three Pulitzer Prizes for the New York Times, spent 10 years researching and writing about Mother ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham ...

Fort A.P. Hill was once named after a Confederate general. Now it’s named after three Union soldiers whose surnames are Anderson, Pinn and Hill.

Maps also show a cemetery existing in that spot in 1876, after the Civil War. The study found “a circumstantial case that the property was used for wartime burials," while the research also “indicates ...

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the visas of South Sudanese in the U.S. will be revoked.