The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.

A national campaign is underway to permanently protect one of the Civil War’s most pivotal battlefields — the site of the ...

Plant your feet anywhere in Charleston's historic district and know that the city would not be what it is today without the ...

Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...

Learn about the real people in "The Gilded Age," including J.P. Morgan and Alva Vanderbilt, as the series intertwines history ...

For historian Charles Perkins, Waco and McLennan County’s 11 post-Civil War freedom colonies, and the 28 churches that grew ...

Steven Spielberg has one of the greatest careers in Hollywood, but Lincoln is without a doubt his greatest achievement.

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

The ongoing consultations by the National Assembly to amend Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution provide an opportunity to explore the ...

In 1850, a number of free Black abolitionists began settling in the territorial city of St. Paul and helped with the freedom ...

For two consecutive weekends, fascist groups have mobilized across towns in Spain with the aim of assaulting or lynching immigrants.

Spurred on by the so-called reckonings over racism in the United States and its legacy of slavery, many Canadian activists ...