Junie' author Erin Crosby Eckstine wrote her new book to preserve her family's stories. Here's how it came to life during the ...

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In this interview, author Erin Crosby Eckstine discusses fulfilling her grandmother’s lifelong dream in writing her debut ...

Junie' by Erin Crosby Eckstine is our 'GMA' Book Club pick for February. The book follows a girl who awakens her sister's ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Abake, her mother, and her sister soon found themselves on Creagh’s plantation near Montgomery, Alabama ... their new owner and put to work in his cotton fields. Matilda’s family were likely ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new American identity based on deep time. Digging deep into the ground to anchor the ...

Our reporters mined a trove of data that revealed detailed demographic information about private schools. That helped us find illuminating stories about how those schools divide communities.

Alabama Gov. James “Big Jim” Folsom once ... The Mules largely ignored, downplayed or actively resisted such efforts. Cotton plantations and Birmingham steel mills might be a force of the ...

In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump ...

From the plantations of 19th century Mississippi to the steel mills of 20th century Youngstown to the board rooms of any major 21st century metropolis, work has long been a defining trait of the black ...