The often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...

Slavery has existed in the world for several millennia. Before the development of technology to perform tedious tasks, slave ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Prisoners who have been extinguishing wildfires in LA are paid $5.80-$10.24 per day that they risk their lives, this ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...