Chautauqua County women Carolyn Loguen (1817-1867) and Mary Ann Brown (1814-1842) were active in New York state’s ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

After a six-minute interview at an expo in Texas, and some administrative follow-up online, to her surprise, she was hired.

After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet ...

James Rodden, identified by the Observer last year as the operator of an account that routinely posted hateful statements, ...

It wasn't the $141 million jackpot. But someone who purchased a Powerball Double Play lottery ticket for Monday's drawing at ...

William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...

I have heard as a common refrain among friends, family, acquaintances and others that we are living in the most “divisive ...

Texas, as a slave-holding state that in 1860 contained about 200,000 enslaved people, was not immune to the bitterness that ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

The intergenerational impact of indentured labour on the mental health of the Indian descendants needs to be revisited, ...

Historic Sotterley announced the launch of “The Kane Family: Slavery to Freedom at Sotterley,” a new book compiling and editing the research writings of genealogist Agnes Kane Callum, with Dave G.