During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans, this included freedom and equality, "the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." Free blacks and ...

Follow the three years of battles in the North African desert, and see how Axis and Allied forces chased each other across this hostile terrain.

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...