“First they came for the Jews.” Many Americans remember that line as the beginning of a confession, offered in 1946 by Martin ...

This lesson explores the rise and fall of the Reconstruction-era Freedman's Savings Bank. The lesson, which features historian Justene Hill Edwards speaking at the Un ...

Author Robert Watson provided a short overview about the Civil War during the summer of 1864 and the near invasion of Washington, D.C., by Confederate forces. The National Civil War Museum in ...