Will the Supreme Court rescue President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional ...

Part genealogy study, part haunting narrative, historian Mary Frances Berry’s new book, “Slavery After Slavery: ...

At the start of the 19th century, The Genius of Liberty carried dispatches on events an ocean away and concerns as close as a ...

"Red Velvet" explores racial inequality in the 19th century through the irony and subtext of the character's words compared ...

In 1828, gold was found in the Appalacian Mountains of Georgia on land that belonged to the Cherokee Nation. As word of the ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to ...

In historian Robin Bernstein's new book "Freeman's Challenge," raising questions of the for-profit prison industry ...

Slavery in New York also lasted far longer ... the enterprise with equal parts passion and wonky command of both 19th-century archives and 21st-century databases. “People used to say Black ...

Throughout the 19th century, New Orleans was the nation’s ... As tensions rose over slavery, Dédé ultimately fled to France. It was there Dédé reached the height of his career.

Further north in Manhattan, in the mid-19th century, was Seneca Village ... between the Irish struggle and the fight against slavery in the U.S. He also used the trip to promote his recently ...

In the west of Britain, there's one of the largest Roman buildings ever discovered in Britain, an Iron Age chariot is saved, and evidence is found of the transatlantic slave trade in Devon.

They then conducted up to 200 interviews with workers and farm owners. The results go beyond the horrific: almost half of the farms are exploited with forced labor (i.e. slaves), and many of them are ...