We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

Sharon Lane moved out of her retirement community and into a cruise ship residence. Here's what daily life is like on the ...

The writer discusses her revealing new book of poetry, “Woman Without Shame,” her peripatetic life, and that infamous blurb for “American Dirt.” A new documentary tells the story of the last known ...

As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular ...

In her Tribeca award winner, Suzannah Herbert observes a Mississippi city known for its antebellum celebrations.

Slavery wasn’t limited to the American South. In the late 1730s, a young boy in Guinea was kidnapped and taken on a slave ship to New England. He grew up as an enslaved person but went on to buy his ...

John Quincy Adams exemplified the courage and commitment to our founding ideals that made an end to slavery possible.

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

Juneteenth, celebrated every year on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were ...

In 1863, Smalls became captain of the Planter, the first Black man to command a United States vessel. He held this position ...