The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...

The order, which stated “so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground…,” led to the ...

A historian raises concerns as the NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction in Fayetteville moves ...

The cold-hearted world of scamming is big business. American consumers lost more than $12.5bn to cyber-fraud last year, ...

All indications point to the fact that the earliest phase of church construction in Norway was not just a matter of communal ...

Archeologists who have uncovered artifacts from Harriet Tubman's birthplace have set up a virtual museum to share them with ...

Inspiration, followed by motivation and a considerable amount of perspiration changed the lives of many former slaves and ...

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

and by the early 1700s were known to rely on forced labor. All Catholic religious orders operating in the American South had slaves, often received as gifts from benefactors to offer financial ...