The election of 1860 was one of the most fractured in American history ... within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The monstrous institution of slavery was ...

McGill’s mission: to sleep in every former slave dwelling still standing in the United States. Tonight’s stay ... to save slave dwellings and the history they hold before it’s too late.

Elon Musk wasn’t the first to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.

In the early decades of the Republic, the United States Congress was a deeply flawed institution. In the famous compromise known as the three-fifths rule, the Constitution had allowed slave states ...

In ”Last Seen,” historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost loved ones ...

On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the anti-slavery effort in the United States was achieved: Congress banned international slave trade. Despite the passing of the bill the lucrative trade ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the ...

The hatred of America and of capitalism is what animates the entire slave narrative in your ... The left is morally inferior to the United States and its founders and the Judeo-Christian system.

The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...

This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

On January 1, 1808 the first great goal of the anti-slavery effort in the United States was achieved: Congress banned international slave trade. Despite the passing of the bill the lucrative trade ...