Artist Basil Watson is creating the first statue of an African American, Civil War hero Robert Smalls, to be placed on South Carolina's Statehouse grounds.

In "The Last Sweet Bite," Michael Shaikh looks to those who are preserving their food and culinary traditions in the ...

While Hayek did not write directly about the American Civil War, some of his writings provide insights on the conflict.

In 1775, a year before there was a United States and six weeks after the Continental Army was formed, George Washington made ...

The University of California, Los Angeles, has announced that it has lost research funding over federal accusations of ...

Robert Major Walker made history in 1988 when he was elected as the first Black mayor of Vicksburg, a Mississippi River town ...

America is arguably on the precipice of becoming a full-fledged police state, but we did not arrive here overnight.

Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and ...

The arguments underscored the financial stakes for U.S. importers as the Trump administration prepares to impose higher rates ...

If these states had come to be, we would have had states called Transylvania and Nickajack! The states that never were After starting out as 13 British colonies, the United States has since grown to ...

Myanmar’s military government has announced it is ending the state of emergency it declared after seizing power 4 1/2 years ago. The government also will restructure its administrative bodies ...