Most Americans think of Abraham Lincoln in hagiographic terms, the man who “saved” the United States from destruction. A ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.

Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops celebrating Lee, a Confederate who chose treason and human bondage over country.

By Texas law, for instance, “a teacher, administrator, or other employee of a state agency, school district, or ...

On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most extreme supporters chose to celebrate Confederate general and slaveowner ...

Duke further said “that slavery was right and emancipation a violation of the ... The first truly national Confederate monument was the statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond. It was unveiled before an ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon.

Sheila Jackson Lee (D ... Civil War," Pages 26-37. Robert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis (Eds.), 1992. Edward E. Baptist. “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American ...

On every third Monday in January every year Alabama and Mississippi honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and ...

February is Black History Month, and there are various events taking place in Cincinnati to celebrate the occasion.