Frederick Douglass’ trajectory from an enslaved laborer to a globally recognized statesman is a study in tenacity and self-determination. Inside a hall at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery ...

Slavery was a compromise. The Black Lives Matter movement led to more crime. Masculinity helped win World War II. Those are some of the lessons included in PragerU Kids videos, an educational ...

Today marks the 207th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, one of the greatest Americans to ever live. After he escaped from slavery in Talbot County, Md., Douglass eventually settled in ...

Frederick Douglass wrote that teaching a man how to read makes him forever unfit for slavery. As civil war loomed, he aligned first with the Liberty Party, then threw weight behind the Republicans, ...

Descendants of Frederick Douglass read excerpts from one of his most famous speeches: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Douglass gave this speech to a group of abolitionists 169 years ago.

Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the nation’s most influential leaders. Discover how a man born into slavery became one of the most influential voices for democracy in American ...

On a hot night in August 1841, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass stood before a thousand white people inside a rickety wooden building in Nantucket, Mass. A handful of Black people appeared in the ...