In a long-form interview, the author of Fox Creek reflects on writing slavery, historical responsibility, and the moral ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

Tracing the tangled lives of two Black Cape Girardeau men named George Bollinger, from WPA slave narratives to death records ...

Uncovering the hidden historie.s behind the words we use without thinking.

Freedom came with shattering costs for her and her family. By Nikole Hannah-Jones The United States government called her one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists. Assata Shakur called herself a 20th ...

The unpublished life story of a Virginia man born into slavery more than 200 years ago was discovered at the Stowe Center in Hartford. Hundreds of documents and artifacts are kept at the Stowe ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — Descendants of Agatha Babino, a formerly enslaved woman whose story was documented in the 1930s, gathered Saturday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church to honor their ancestor's ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

Betsy Pudliner is affiliated with ICHRIE. The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where ...

The project goal: ID every person enslaved before 1865 in the present-day U.S. ABC News reporter Alex Presha sits down with "10 Million Names" historians Dr. Kendra Field and Dr. Vincent Brown to ...