The National Society of the Colonial Dames on March 1 no longer will open its powder magazine museum daily, a big change for ...
Wall Street is known for its stock trades, but 300 years ago it was the site of a very different kind of investment.
According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark ...
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...