It claims photographers made photos during the civil rights era in color but they were purposefully shown in black-and-white to make them appear older. The post has amassed almost 60,000 retweets ...

Bruce Davidson chronicled the US civil rights movement in the 1960s. In this video from our Through the Lens series, the photographer reveals how he created his iconic images.

Through a rich archive of forgotten Civil War-era photographs, historian Deborah Willis uncovers the often overlooked role of African American soldiers, cooks and medical workers.

During our guided tour of Fort Sumter with the National Park Service, we discovered an original Civil War artillery shell still embedded in the fort’s brick wall. This powerful visual reminder of the ...

The documentary “Riotsville, USA” is, on the surface, a movie about America in the late 1960s, at a time when nightly news stories about civil unrest provoked citizens and politicians alike to ...