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

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 ...

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 ...

White dread of race-mixing girded the remorseless segregation of the Jim Crow era that followed the end of slavery. Trump warns Americans that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” ...

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

The idea of reparations for slavery in the United States originated during the Civil War era. One example is General Sherman's Field Order No. 15, which aimed to provide land to emancipated slaves.

The ongoing legal challenges to President Trump's order highlight the complexities of constitutional interpretation ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

A campaign to liberate slaves would be a natural extension of the previous decade’s anti-apartheid movement, when major human-rights organizations and black leaders passionately took on the issue of r ...