Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...

One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...

During the Civil War, in July 1862 when the Army of the Potomac was in camp, Brig. Gen. Daniel Butterfield summoned Pvt. Oliver Wilcox Norton, his brigade bugler, to his tent. Butterfield, who ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

SCETV celebrates Black History Month with special programming highlighting Black American culture and history, featuring ...

• Gov. John Hickenlooper said, “This is the best day of the year,” on the day that Miss Loveland Valentine Ellen Colpitts visited the Colorado Capitol, a tradition for each year’s Miss Valentine.

Four Corners Monument The Four Corners Monument is a unique place in the United States where visitors can stand in four ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine but declined to say how many times they had spoken, the New York Post reported on ...