During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

In a city brewed of Catholicism, Cajuns, Creoles and Voodoo; of historically brutal subjugation and Confederate plantations, ...

A team of Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists who excavated the site from 2020-2024 are resuming their work at the site “to ...

This is the second time this bill has gone through the General Assembly, after Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a version last year ...

This article was written by Jim Beaugez. The surrender of Vicksburg by Confederate Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton to Union forces ...

The Civil War Voyage of David Henry White” tells the tale of a free Black man captured during one of the Alabama’s many raids ...

Roots and Realities will have its opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m., featuring a conversation with Farris and ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

Donald J. Trump came in hot when he took the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025.

A monument honoring a former Black Congressman who commandeered a Confederate ship during the ... northeast quadrant of the grounds between the African American history monument and the Spanish ...

But the location in the northeast quadrant of the grounds between the African American history ... how he commandeered the Confederate Ship Planter in 1862 to bring 15 other runaway slaves to ...