The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look ...

Repelled by American racism, thousands of free people of color bounced between New Orleans and Haiti in the 19th century.

Ten outstanding data-driven journalism projects, from as many countries, were chosen by a diverse Prize Committee of 17 ...

Juneteenth falls on June 19th and is a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. It's an important day for kids to know the history about and there is no better way than to learn ...

It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked in the arid sands in the northern ...

Cynthia Erivo stars in Harriet, a biographical drama about the real-life hero, Harriet Tubman, who was born into slavery on a ...

Calhoun, a 19th-century politician and slavery supporter, was renamed Hopper College in honor of Grace Murray Hopper, a Yale alumnus who became a leading computer scientist. In 2020, Yale launched ...

Marxist theory is often assumed to be fundamentally alien to US history. But when a memo from Donald Trump’s Office of ...

Explore the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass, a leader in abolition whose words and actions shaped the fight for justice ...

Tailoring Black Style’ reveals who she thought was best dressed at the Met Gala—and the new way she looks at dandyism.

What do you do with it now? That was my experience reading two game-changing books on Augustine and slavery. Published within months of each other, Toni Alimi’s Slaves of God and Matthew Elia’s The ...