This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.

By Samuel Marquis Like many important Indigenous American historical figures, the young war captain and statesman Lawrence the Mohawk was recognized in his own Age of Revolution for his leadership,…

After measles swept through her household, the young woman wanted to get vaccinated. Her doctor said she couldn't because she had leukemia and the treatments had weakened her immune system.

Congratulations to Frank Smith Jr.

Along the US's South-eastern coast, Gullah Geechee communities preserve a distinct culture and language rooted in West Africa that is spoken nowhere else on Earth.

A traveling exhibit highlighting the contributions of pioneering African Americans in Virginia is making its way to libraries and historical institutions across the Commonwealth, allowing communities ...

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By Charleton and Marissa Yingling “It shows, in a strong light, the heaves and throes of the burning mountain, three years, at least, before the explosion of the volcano in Massachusetts or Virgini…

Ahead of Monday’s ceremony, we chat with Emory University’s Erica Armstrong Dunbar, co-executive producer of HBO’s Emmy-nominated show.

I love the opening scene of the movie Glory. It’s really the only moment in the film that covers Robert Gould Shaw’s military career prior to accepting the colonelcy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment...

Dr. Jason Doll, associate professor of fisheries, Dr. Ivan Dungan, associate professor of mathematics, and Dr. Erica Johnson, associate professor of history, have been named Francis Marion University’...

By Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV A map of the Holy Roman Empire near the end of the eighteenth century does not resemble a modern national map of Europe. Its surface breaks into electorates, duc…

Patrick J. Mahoney, The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism (NYU Press, 2026). In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads…

What's up next for the Civil War Memory Book Club.

By Shubham Yadav The imagery that revolution invokes depends on the standpoint of the spectator. Revolution, for the elites and powerholders, is bloody, chaotic, disruptive, and tumultuous.[1] For …

By Hugo Sanchez Aranguren American audiences often know Simón Bolívar as the “George Washington of South America.” The analogy orients, but it compresses a life of revolution, contradiction, and st…