Winooski had a short time as a community in the 19th century. Its most famous resident was a well-known abolitionist who had ...

Gale, part of Cengage Group, is helping faculty and researchers explore and understand the transnational impact of the ...

Until her death 85 years ago on January 13, 1940, Matilda was the last surviving passenger on the last-ever slave ship bound ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral ...

Abolishing birthright citizenship would mark a qualitative new step in a legal counterrevolution and would fundamentally ...

Add Montgomery’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park to the list of places you need to visit in 2025. The park — which honors the ...

By 1819, the US was made up of 22 states - evenly split between Slave States and Free States. In November 1819, Missouri requested to become a new state, one which allowed slavery. The North ...

From the abolition of slavery and ushering in of civil rights in the US; the world’s largest capitalist economy, to debates ...

The activist behind the U.S. Supreme Court case that largely ended affirmative action in college admissions is now targeting ...

“Fort fisher was essentially America’s largest sand castle ever built,” Steele said. ”Construction began around early in 1861 ...

including at least 30 Civil War veterans, on a hill north of York. Late in the century, the county’s potter’s field was relocated to a hilltop site south of Lebanon Cemetery after hundreds of ...