The date is becoming more widely known due to the efforts of Black historians who have been sharing the date's importance throughout the state.

This copy photo shows a 1850 Daguerreotype of Renty, a South Carolina slave who Tamara Lanier, of Norwich, Conn., said is her family’s patriarch. PHOTO ...

In April 1858 the Presbyterian Church, which was located on the corner of Dickerson and Olive, Palmyra, Mo., acquired an ...

Titled “ The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 ,” the show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City features ...

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It has been about 100 years since barges floated along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Washington, D.C., and rural ...

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From June 8 to June 12, thousands of middle and high school students from across the United States and around the world will ...

I'm Mark Oppold with an American agriculture history minute tells us today about how One-room schoolhouses are part of American agriculture ...