Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending fugitive slave cases.

A Washington Post review of websites operated by the National Park Service found that edits on dozens of pages since ...

A prolific writer and speaker, Howe championed various social causes, including women's suffrage and world peace.

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

Several rooms located in the House press gallery at the U.S. Capitol could be renamed to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass under an amendment by Utah Rep. Burgess Owens and other Republicans.

Telling history is making choices: which stories, which individuals, which details? DEI is part of the selection process.

The first Indian American journalist to land a job in the U.S. was hired by the Black press during a period of intense racial ...

As the nation marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month, Churchill's descendants will take part in a service alongside ...

Franklin later in life was known as a vocal and influential abolitionist, but as Taylor notes, “For most of the 18th century, to be a newspaper printer was to be a slave trader.” Yet another ...

Forten began to use his influence to advocate for the abolition of slavery, helping fund and contributing to William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. Enslaved black people had ...