History

Adolf Hitler was fiercely anti-Jewish, and he and his Nazi followers fashioned race laws designed to deprive Jewish people of all rights.

The country’s first and only all-Black women's unit to serve overseas during the war will be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.

Fannie Lou Hamer is lauded as a civil rights icon, yet her position as an anti-abortion Democrat is often overlooked.

Archaeologists believe they have discovered the foundation of the original building of the First Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia.

A five-letter inscription dated around 3,100 years ago with the name of a biblical judge was unearthed in the Southern district of Israel.

To resist inaccurate portrayals of themselves in popular media, African Americans used photography to depict who they really were.

A group of scholars want the Atlantic seabed to be internationally recognized as a memorial site for the transatlantic slave trade.