Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

For Black History Month, a family member of a prominent figure in history was at the Springfield Museum of History.

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

Beginning with his 1845 autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave," Frederick Douglass provided fuel for the abolitionist movement. In 1854, the civil rights leader ...

The celebratory week was set in February to coincide with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and President ... and influential abolitionist. His 1845 autobiography is still taught in U.S. schools ...