The driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that ...

Baptist ministers from the Boston area signed an anti-slavery manifesto. It was a 5-foot-long handwritten scroll titled “A ...

This is possible. It takes regime change. Americans took the plunge in 1776 and broke free. Now it’s the turn of the Iranian ...

In 1787, the U.S. Constitution was amended to include the Fugitive Slave Clause. This clause made it illegal for enslaved ...

Like the actor James Stewart playing Mr. Smith, Mr. Archibald Stuart “went to Washington” as a member of the Twenty-Fifth ...

Stone Mountain Park is home of the biggest Confederate monument in America, and one group wants to keep it that way forever.

The text says that governments are human constructions. The legitimacy of governments depends upon democratic consent, not ...

A beloved summer event returns to Cass County as Underground Railroad Days celebrates its 15th year this weekend. The ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and Antietam, and the war's lasting impact on the United States ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American slavery.

Charting this history from the early 19th century to the American Civil War and the eventual abolition of slavery in Cuba and Brazil in the late 19th century, he examines how the last slave ...