An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

This hundred years—from approximately 1725 to 1825—is also the high-water mark of the slave trade, as Europeans send more than 7.2 million people to forced labor, disease, and death in the New ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

Under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, an enslaver who tracked down an escaped slave could—often assisted by bounty hunters—seize the escapee and drag them before any judge or magistrate. If ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

We have been deceived—again and again—into believing that U.S. democracy was born as a noble product of collective will. The ...

From historic artefacts and contemporary art to interactive exhibitions, London’s best museums have something for every ...

Mansa Musa, the 14th-century ruler of the Mali Empire, amassed immense wealth through gold and strategic trade, becoming ...

The study of the historic slave trade depends on numbers—the 12.5 million people kidnapped from Africa and shipped to the New World between 1525 and 1866, the 10.7 million who survived the two ...

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that ...