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

We are starting a new Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of the American Civil War. In ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

From around the year 1500, millions of west Africans were sent to work mainly on plantations in the Caribbean and the ...

April is often associated with spring and renewal, but it also powerfully reminds us of the struggles and triumphs within ...

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

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

including the southern United States. U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk told the forum that an estimated 25 million to 30 million Africans were uprooted for the purpose of slavery. Few nations ...

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.

The Trump administration's efforts to erase Black history from public institutions, including museums and libraries, are ...

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 ...