In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Two years after national apologies for slavery were made by the king and prime minister, campaigners and politicians at a ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma ...

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1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...

As America approaches its 249th birthday, many scholars, writers, and ordinary Americans are prompted to review the nation’s ...

The government has declared 43 types of work as hazardous for children—jobs that threaten their physical and mental ...

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The Argentine justice system has added the auxiliary vicar of Opus Dei as a defendant in a case involving the alleged human ...

Experts suggest focusing on founding documents and minimizing the focus on current political figures could prevent the ...

From 2018 to 2022, the hotline identified 8,613 likely victims whose traffickers exploited their addiction or used drugs as a ...