Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Manisha ...

Education officials say the materials were designed to be age appropriate but critics argue they repeatedly omit key context ...

In 2016, a University of Chicago scholar stumbled across an extraordinary piece of writing that had been lost for nearly two ...

The Civil War between the United States and the Confederacy was fought over the issue of enslavement. Slavery was the ...

A taskforce of state legislators and historians will ask the General Assembly to create the Illinois Freedom Trails ...

Brown will observe the 250th anniversary of the United States with Brown 2026, a multi-year initiative that offers public ...

It was a scene played out exactly as it was retold by Israel Gilette, a man once enslaved by Thomas Jefferson.

But less attention has been given to how the curriculum teaches America’s history of racism, slavery and civil ... communities and study of the United States,” according to Learning for ...

I remember I was moved to become a historian of Africa and the African diaspora, specializing in the history of race and ...

The president-elect has targeted the Fourteenth Amendment’s citizenship protections for deletion. The Supreme Court might ...

On a blistering fall afternoon, even by Louisiana’s standards, mainly Black incarcerated people cling tightly to bucking ...