John Williams wasn’t a particularly tall man, standing at 5 feet, 6 inches, but he made a big impact after joining the Union ...

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...

That an African American rider had the winning Derby mount just a decade after the Civil War would have come as little surprise to horse racing fans back then. Thirteen of the 15 jockeys in that ...

IT BASICALLY IS CHRONICLING THE HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN THE SPORT OF THOROUGHBRED HORSE RACING, WHICH REALLY GOT ITS START IN KENTUCKY JUST AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. THE TRAVELING ...

Vicksburg was incorporated in 1825, and for 200 years it has been shaped and molded by all who have lived here. And while  contributions have been made by many — sometimes even unbeknownst to others — ...

Twenty-three years ago, a middle-aged man from Nigeria traveled to Aiken to buy a horse farm ... up for well-heeled snowbirds. After the Civil War, town leaders also promoted the area as a ...

T he ending of Dances With Wolves reveals the tragic fate of the Sioux and other Native American people and cultures of the ...

The xenophobic, bigoted, and cruel policies of the Trump administration are bringing back traumatic memories of American ...

Both the right and left in America celebrate the tradition of welcoming immigrants who wish to assimilate and become productive members of the American ... The Trojan horse many of these ...

“We all ran over, and I remember the camp director, Miss Vinna Freeman told us to come away, and he said, ‘It’s OK, they can pet the horse ... make up the Civil War Defenses of Washington.

Streetcars were a societal hub in 1870s Shreveport. And although we know that young boys and ladies used the mule-drawn ...

She was there on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and recalls it as vividly as if it were yesterday — the screams of her fellow civil rights ... of a galloping horse on her heels ridden ...