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

Texas is one of the few states that were once independent countries, and is quite proud of that. But just 16 years after ...

She was only 19 years old when she was sentenced to death for killing her slave master, Robert Newsom, six miles south of Fulton.

Wall Street is known for its stock trades, but 300 years ago it was the site of a very different kind of investment.

RaMell Ross’ film ‘Nickel Boys’ is nominated for Best picture. His 2018 documentary is an attempt to express Black life and ...

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

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and bayonets,” killing a man known as Galloway or Gallaway, according to ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

With an audience of over 120 million people, the performance broke viewership records. But at times it seemed designed to speak directly to me.

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the ...

When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery but allowed the exception as punishment for convicted crimes, California followed ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...