Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

At an antebellum plantation, during Black History Month, over 100 people came to a lecture about slavery on Saturday.

Discover how African Americans have contributed to the U.S. economy, despite historical inequalities. Explore the impact of ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...

For Leyva, a professor of history at the University of Texas at ... One reason lies in how the United States came to be, growing from east to west. By 1848, when Mexico ceded what’s now the ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...