It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

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

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By surfacing records of enslaved people and engaging local residents, Philadelphia’s Stenton Museum is reexamining Quaker ...

The author of ‘The Greatest Sentence Ever Written,’ says, ‘Maybe reflecting on the Declaration of Independence and the values ...

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President Donald Trump’s renewed insistence that the United States should "get Greenland" has reopened a diplomatic wound ...

On 27 November 1897 the multi-millionaire Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament establishing a foundation to ...

As a Black girl growing up in a segregated St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1950s and early ’60s, I adopted the prevailing story about our country. Nobody ever sat me down and laid it out. Rather, it was ...

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A haunting sketch of a ship captain assaulting a teenage slave girl who later died was a major driving force behind the abolitionist movement, experts have revealed. Captain John Kimber was accused of ...