The tour will make stops at historically significant locations across Youngstown including Oak Hill Cemetery, The Rayen ...

While the American Civil War was fought on U.S. soil between the Union and the Confederacy, its impact and significance resonated across the globe. Foreign governments, newspapers, and citizens ...

This week in Akron history, a tavern keeper died, a famous daughter paid a visit, Goodyear prepared to expand and West Point ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

The 2025 Eighth of August festivities in Paducah will run through Sunday, several of them hosted by the W.C. Young Community ...

Her accounts of this and other unfair lynchings infuriated some whites. Her pamphlet, “Southern Horror: Lynch Law in All Its ...

What maybe the first ever celebration of the “Eighth of August” in Sevier County is taking place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 at the Williams Family Seymour Branch Library.

Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...

The event honored the day of Aug. 8, 1863, when Tennessee officially recognized President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation ...

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.