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

Native Texan and Pulitzer-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed will be the keynote speaker at the Dec. 5-6 event.

One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...

This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Governor Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman as a one-star ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

It would also go beyond the efforts of abolitionists in Congress such ... the post-Civil War refusal of Virginia judges to allow African Americans to serve on juries. The state of Virginia ...

Added Apr 21, 2016 at 02:22PM EDT by Don. Harriet Tubman $20 Dollar Bill refers to a movement to replace the seventh President of the United States Andrew Jackson on the front of the United States $20 ...

They moved on, and then someone declared the hanging of an Abolitionist would finish off the night's pleasure. The victim-to-be was Arthur Tappan, president of the American Anti-Slavery Society ...

The Missing Pieces Project, launched last month by Historic England, maps out sites across Britain and Ireland where at least 50 African American abolitionists lectured in concert halls ...

A widowed grandmother now living in the Indian American hub of Edison, New Jersey, she has lived a slice of the American dream, having raised two American daughters — one a pediatrician, the other a ...

The Unite union, which is a major financial backer of Labour MPs, is launching a legal challenge to overturn the abolition of the Winter Fuel Payment. The abolition of the payment, which is worth ...