About two dozen people gathered at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Sunday, Aug. 25, for one of America’s most somber anniversaries. Churches throughout the United States rang their bells for four ...

For genealogists, President Barack Obama's family tree is the gift that keeps on giving. The connection to Punch, an indentured servant condemned to slavery in 1640, comes from Obama's mother's side ...

For nations, like people, distant memory of trauma can be submerged and repressed but never extinguished. It surfaces in words, in politics and sometimes in the movies. In the middle of Steven ...

HAMPTON, Va. - Outlook Beach at Fort Monroe hosted a remembrance ceremony on Saturday, honoring the African slaves who died while crossing the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage was a key part of the ...

click image for close-up American illustrator Howard Pyle, illustrator of many historical and adventure stories for periodicals, created this depiction of a slave auction in New Amsterdam (later to be ...