In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

The annual gathering traditionally draws thousands of spectators and hundreds of re-enactors from several states helping tell ...

Experts are returning to Syria's war-ravaged heritage sites, hoping to lay the groundwork for restoring them and reviving ...

Rich history and small-town charm collide with rubber duck racing and bread roll flinging among miles of nature in Christian ...

This is the same bridge that Civil War soldiers crossed and the bridge Mosby’s horse ran across! It is the oldest operating bridge in Virginia. The bridge was constructed between 1826 and 1827 ...

Washington, Lincoln and even Millard Fillmore and are among the presidents honored with Denver streets — and one infamous VP.

During the Civil War, following the Union Army’s occupation ... The regiment’s white officers’ horses reputedly stabled in the sanctuary, leaving the small church in disrepair.

When visitors enter the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, Ohio, their first question is ‘Was this a stop on the Underground Railroad?’ The somewhat ...