The city of Philadelphia sued in January after the National Park Service removed the explanatory panels from Independence ...

Program at Naper Settlement explores how messages conveyed through quilts guided runaway slaves through the Underground Railroad.

During his short life, Lecomte was famed for his speed–he set records for both one-mile and four-mile heats, and for his ...

Black history is not only found in textbooks or large cities. In Russellville, local leaders are working to preserve that ...

I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave ...

When I was growing up, we celebrated Washington’s Birthday, not Presidents Day. It was observed on Feb. 22, the day George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1732. I always ...

By Glenn Bramble Special to NKyTribune Kentucky held unique importance in the history of the Underground Railroad, especially as a border state, that is, a slaveholding state that did not secede from ...

The history of Charles County, Maryland, dates back to 1658, when the region was formally established during the colonial era. Over time, several notable figures emerged from the county, many of whom ...

The Thomas Wolfe Memorial is devoted to interpreting the life, literature and times of Thomas Wolfe using his mother’s boardinghouse, known as the “Old Kentucky Home” and his novel, “Look Homeward, ...

Do you believe in ghosts? Join us as we journey through America's most terrifying locations where spirits are said to still ...

In 1926, 50 years after the abolishment of slavery in the U.S., Black historian, Carter Wodson, participated in an observance of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday at a celebration in Chicago where ...