During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS Constellation is a fixture in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Hundreds of people pass ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

After his death, Eli Whitney was described as "one of the most distinguished men who our country as produced." ...

Peter R. Kolchin, Henry Clay Reed Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware and recipient of the University's Francis Alison Award, died at home on Jan. 13, 2025. The cause of death ...