Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...

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Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Jon Meacham says he is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, has written about presidents as removed in time and temperament as Andrew Jackson and George H.W. Bush, makes biblical references when ...

When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

Presidents Day evolved from honoring George Washington to a retail-driven holiday. Initially ignored by Washington himself, ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

Like the other Founding Fathers, George Washington was uneasy about the idea of publicly celebrating his life. He was the ...

Nestled in the heart of Englewood, Colorado, lies a bibliophile’s paradise that’s as vast as the Rocky Mountains and as cozy ...