At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South.

By Jeffrey Lord From The American Spectator: Nothing happened between 1848 and the end of the 19th century.

Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? Watch as Carol Swain, professor of...

Democrats in Connecticut, Missouri, and Georgia have dropped the slave-owning presidents from their annual fund-raising dinners, and many more states could follow suit.

A Klu Klux Klan (KKK) rally held in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday drew only nine members to the event and hundreds of counterprotesters.

Racism is not dead in America, but the fact remains that many whites have died trying to defeat it, an Alabama Sate professor says.

Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Republicans were generally more unified than Democrats in support of civil rights legislation.

Even as the nation celebrates the passage of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, some liberals are using the occasion to bash Republicans as inheriting the legacy of Jim Crow — ignoring t…

Democrats were to blame for segregation, Jim Crow, and the opposition to civil rights reforms.

The Democratic party instigated the racist and segregationist outrages that the civil-rights revolution fought to eliminate.

On the occasion of the remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., a man who preached racial healing, Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, stood before a group of African-Americans and denounced the current...

Because, of course, they want rule of law to reign, a group of citizens began digging up the grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Memphis this week over his helping found the Ku Klux Klan.

Even as the nation celebrates the passage of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, some liberals are using the occasion to bash Republicans as inheriting the legacy of Jim Crow — ignoring t…

  Image via Wikipedia At Matt's recommendation, I've been reading What Hath God Wrought, an excellent history of the United States in the early 19th Century. One of the most interesting things about...

In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party meet to establish a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western territories. The Whig

The 1964 Civil Rights Act revolutionized America, and here are the things you may not know about the bill.

submitted to IR by Michael Zak In his inauguration address, Democrat President James Buchanan hinted that he had been tipped off that the Supreme Court would soon render a decision that he believed...

From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Pa

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says in a PBS documentary airing in spring: 'The biggest impediment was the modern day liberal... they have the power to caricature you.'