Fredericksburg, Virginia witnessed history unfold and is still leading the way. Visit Ferry Farm, George Washington’s ...

At night, I lie awake thinking about someone I do not know. During the day, I comb through online archives and newspapers, trying to find her. Her name was Cretia, and she was a 14-year-old enslaved ...

American popular culture often depicts enslaved African-Americans during the Civil War as either remaining loyally on plantations or running away to join the Union Army, but, in this excellent work, ...

A note on language -- Introduction : The bricks we stand on -- pt. 1. The slow poison -- 1. The wedding : fruits of freedom -- 2. An industrial slavery : "Niggers is cheap" -- 3. Slavery's increase : ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the conflict - including slavery, westward expansion, economic tensions, and ...

The foundation that oversees preservation efforts at Historic Jamestowne recently received a state grant that will help it ...

Gettysburg Address, the fight against slavery and the battle for freedom provide historical perspective on principles of the Revolution and practice of slavery ...

Rather than write a column for this Independence Day weekend edition of the newsletter, I decided to chat with Zaakir Tameez, a recent graduate of Yale Law School, about his new biography of Charles ...

It has long been believed that a man named Cudjo Lewis was the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the United States. Now a researcher at Newcastle University in Britain says she ...