A Southern Baptist convention recently agreed upon a resolution that sought to eliminate a variety of laws and actions that ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

“…one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Of course, we understand that in 1775, at the time ...

Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the country’s ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the institution of slavery was being threatened, ... Livingston observes that the same ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved ...

Descendants of slave owners and those of enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat around the same table at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week to discuss ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat ...

For the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the same table with diplomats and experts from those nations discussing the co… ...