On May 26, 1900, the Geneva Daily Times told its readers the Union veterans would not parade on Memorial Day. The local ...

In “The Gunfighters,” the journalist Bryan Burrough offers a lively look at the legends and myths of the Wild West.

Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

When slaves were freed and the Civil War ended, the Ku Klux Klan was born. After Reconstruction, came the Jim Crow era. The ...

The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s will receive a jazz funeral.

The Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts has announced the 10th MASB Artist Travel Prize, awarding $7,000 to a Baltimore-based visual artist to support travel that enriches their practice, with ...

The severed heads of 19 Black Americans, used for "research" in 1872, have been returned to New Orleans, where they will be ...