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"The common ground that public education has represented throughout this nation’s history is eroding underneath our feet." ...

At the top of a tree-covered hill off South Pifer Road, a little known but significant piece of history lies hidden beneath ...

Over 200 students and people from around the Beaufort area gathered to recognize the 200th anniversary of Marquis De ...

During the height of slavery in the 1800s, enslaved African people were treated as legal property and commodities, bought and sold for profit. The price of a slave depended on economic factors like ...

The sun wasn’t up yet when a dozen people began to gather on Wednesday at an all-Black cemetery in this South Texas border town as they prepared to retrace the steps that slaves took on the ...

The lives of Margaret Hyson and her children George and Charlotte -- three people enslaved in the Yorktown neighborhood in the 1800s -- had previously been unknown to all but their descendants. But ...

A French politician suggested the two countries no longer share the values that inspired the gift more than a century ago.

Douglass, who was born into slavery, eventually escaped to freedom and rose through the mid to late 1800s as a prominent voice advocating against slavery. He defied the odds despite the laws ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The Young Men's Christian Association, better known as the YMCA, has existed in the U.S. since the late 1800s ... before slavery ended, and today it carries his name.

In the mid 19th century, the US welcomed immigrants; the gold rush and the construction of America’s transcontinental railways created demand for cheap labour, as did the abolition of slavery in ...