Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Gil Rose talks all about bringing Ulysses Kay’s "Frederick Douglass" back to life along with the work of other Black composers.

Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to ...

The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

In the months since Trump's inauguration, the government has scrubbed and removed information about Black historical figures and other minorities from a number of its websites.

From the Anti-Masons to Elon Musk's new America Party, here's a look at how third parties have made their mark through ...

Theirs wasn’t the most famous duel in American history. But David Terry’s murder of his friend turned rival David Broderick ...

Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our ...

A five-foot-long handwritten scroll from Boston in 1847 titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery”—long thought to have been completely lost to time—was recently discovered in an archival box ...

United States President Donald Trump has drawn mockery after he complimented the president of Liberia for speaking English ...

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...