This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “Was Integration the Wrong Goal?” ...

Some critics have even said the bill would force professors to give equal time to the teaching of such long-discredited ...

Two books about the American Civil War’s aftermath focus on the experiences of formerly enslaved people.

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The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

The Trump administration maintains the constitutional amendment was intended to help formerly enslaved people after the Emancipation Proclamation and doesn't cover children of people who entered ...

A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of ...

A new law permits the D.C. Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people.

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Slavery was never outlawed in Massachusetts, she said. After a time, and until the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it “was just not enforced.” Lowell’s immigrant story makes it a ...