Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued more than two ...

The delayed freedom of Texas slaves reveals much about the fragile nature of legal authority when confronted by entrenched ...

Juneteenth went from a little-known celebration of emancipation to a federal American holiday. Along the way, there has been both progress and pushback.

The Beacon of Freedom rises 47 feet and was designed by Perkins&Will, and fabricated by Demiurge. It was inspired by civil leader and activist Lyda Moore Merrick, who once said: “My father passed a ...

Professor Emerita Rosalee Martin has written a candid book about the modern history of HBCU Huston-Tillotson University in ...

President Donald Trump said he would send 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles because of demonstrations. Can he do that?

Housed in the former living quarters for soldiers on the third tier of the fort at the top of a hand-cut, granite spiral ...

The Kamala Harris election result is under legal scrutiny as a lawsuit alleges voting machine errors in New York’s Rockland ...

Slavery, sectional controversy, political crises; civilian and military life during the war; the successes and failures of Reconstruction; the problems of race. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social ...

Part two of two. Part one is available here. The Civil War was over, but now Arkansas and Augustus Hill Garland had many ...

We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the ...

“Black Gold: Stories Untold” is exhibiting June 6 – Nov. 22, at the Fort Point National Historic Site, 201 Marine Dr. Sharon ...