During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, camels wandered the Sonoran Desert. How they got there, and what happened to ...

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The state Capitol stairs serve as a stark example of complicated work performed by a complicated man, who lived a remarkable ...

The order, which stated “so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground…,” led to the ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Horace King, a former slave, was a renowned bridge builder and architect in the American South during the ... rising waters sounded the death knell for many early bridges. In 1833, as a slave ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

Her journey to found a college for black people seemed near-impossible for the African-American ... slaves Sam and Patsy McLeod. She was the first of her siblings to be born into freedom. Early ...

In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, over 30 works showcase the significance of this ...

Pickett Chapel was built by slaves whose fingerprints are still in ... be used as a community theater for years. However, by the early 2000s, Pickett Chapel was vacant, in disrepair and condemned ...

An early example is St. Paul ... 101] Unfortunately a few American bishops misinterpreted this Bull as condemning only the slave trade and not slavery itself. Bishop John England of Charleston ...

The Slave Trade Slavery was a common practice ... Some of the most notable tax events in early American history include: In addition, Britain passed the Townshend Acts between 1767 and 1768.