In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

April 26 marked the 25th anniversary of civil unions becoming state law in Vermont. Here's why it's so significant.

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the ...

Support for public lands transcends party lines. As Congressman Ryan Zinke said at last week’s launch of the bipartisan Congressional Public Lands Caucus, “This is not a red issue or a blue issue.

Idaho’s new flag law, which has been skirted by some cities, has affected a Treasure Valley town that traditionally flew a ...

Carnegie Mellon University professor Edda Fields-Black provided an introduction to her lecture about Harriet Tubman's role in the 1863 Combahee River raid, a secret military mission against ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

A decade of civil war, though, was starting to wear out all the factions. Around this time, facing intense pressure from the United States, the North and the South finally agreed to negotiate. In 2005 ...

They’ll ask me whether there were any Hispanic or Native American people in the Civil War ... in the Civil War. “It’s nice to learn about this because I look at the United States as a ...

“The task force and the entire Trump administration are in lockstep on ensuring that entities that receive taxpayer dollars are following all civil rights laws," a spokesman for the antisemitism task ...

Several states ... by civil rights laws and cannot make admission or hiring decisions or host exclusionary programs based on race. Now, several states are signaling opposition to the administration’s ...