When Edda L. Fields-Black started working on this book, she was not sure she would have anything new to say about Harriet Tubman. Tubman’s story is so well

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The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

For the first time in history, the entire United States Constitution will go on display, to celebrate 250 years of American Freedom.

Historian Jonathan S. Jones discusses the causes and prevalence of postwar drug addiction among Union and Confederate veterans.

Join us for this special presentation at the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum in Washington, D.C. Professor Judith Giesberg will talk about her new book Last Seen: The Enduring Search by th...

The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy; but when declared by a sitting president, it becomes a provocation.

Two books about the American Civil War’s aftermath focus on the experiences of formerly enslaved people.

Formerly enslaved people would placed ads in newspapers hoping to find lost children, parents, spouses and siblings. Historian Judith Giesberg tells the stories of some of those families in a new book...

Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families."