McElwee’s 1985 masterpiece “Sherman’s March” is a would-be historical documentary hijacked by the floundering love life of ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in a recently released interview signaled an openness to reparations for slavery in ...

Jose Antonio Robles came to Branciforte as one of nine “convict settlers,” jailed for petty crimes. He was born in Zacatecas, ...

I’ve been known to push the documentary Sherman’s March onto people with the fervor of an evangelical. It’s so many things at once — a time capsule of mid-1980s aesthetics, a menagerie of eccentric ...

The war in Ukraine has marked one of the most significant developments in modern warfare since the introduction of ...

Ross McElwee, a longtime diaristic documentary-maker, assembles a personal ode to the troubled boy on the edge of his frame who became a drug addict.

Sioux City had three chances to be the starting point of the transcontinental railroad, according to the late local railroad ...

The exhibition "More Perfect Union: The American Civil War Era" is now open at the Atlanta History Center. It is available for viewing Tuesday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

A slave-trading business in Atlanta in 1864. The photo was taken by a Union Army photographer during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s occupation of the city. (Library of Congress) Public officials with ...

Mamdani Open to NYC Reparations for Role in Slavery ...

President Trump, the Republicans, and the Supreme Court are rolling back all the gains made by our people over the last 162 ...

During much of the Civil War, the Militia Act of 1862 allowed Black soldiers to be paid less than white soldiers. Black ...