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

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday. But in Alabama and Mississippi, it's also Robert E. Lee ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...

Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's nominee as secretary of defense, has said this about Fort Liberty's name.

Thousands of newly freed slaves followed the Union Army’s “March to the Sea” in the hopes of protection as they left bondage ...

By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500 Confederate troops approached ...