During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans ... Slavery took on new importance with a massive influx of slaves to the cotton-growing states in ...

One of Africa's Big Five countries is shown on world maps to be half the size it actually is, while a small European country appears to be double its real area. World maps show country sizes to be ...

For the first time ever, Henry Lovejoy, a CU Boulder history professor, has mapped the boundaries of a fallen African kingdom best known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade. During its reign, the ...