African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...

There can be much debate on whether a site was part of the Underground Railroad. Hudson Valley has its share of sites, ...

The Return of Benjamin Lay depicts the life and times of a Quaker dwarf from Pennsylvania who, in the 18th century, opposed ...

“The ‘Free as One’ exhibit is proof of how and what really occurred,” says Justina Barrett from HSP’s Chief Learning and ...

Joseph and his wife, Margaret Cornell Carpenter, were Quaker abolitionists. "Presumably coming by skiff from Long Island, their first stop in Westchester was the home of Joseph Carpenter in New ...

The Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum in Adams, Mass., is celebrating what would have been the suffragette's 205th birthday ...

Image from Wikimedia Commons Local Pittsburgh happenings in arts, performance, culture, etc. Feb. 10–Feb. 16 The Return of Benjamin Lay  Jan. 31–Feb. 23, Quantum Theater, Braddock Carnegie ...