Former DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has penned a book examining how Georgia founder James Oglethorpe went from a slave ...

Wilson's plans may be shut down, since federal law bans any living person's image from being shown on U.S. currency.

The Dallas troupe is producing Jarrett King’s drama about Henry Brown, who escaped enslavement in Virginia to become a famous ...

The space is a window into the mind of the pioneering artist, who saved nearly everything.

Greg Jenner is joined in 19th-Century America by Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch to learn all about abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth.

A dozen countries on the continent still execute and most still have the death penalty in law, if not in practice ...

Most startling is not the dismantling of government agencies that help others, but the public’s tolerance for these actions.

For years, the celebration of Black History Month has aroused conservative ire around “identity politics” and “special rights ...

Trump hosted a "listening session" at the White House, leaving attendants wondering if he knew Frederick Douglas ...

As the nineteenth-century British liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, “the sacred duties which civilized nations owed ...

Finneran was among thirty members of the Bowdoin community who dropped into Ladd House on February 14 to transcribe documents ...

A new permanent exhibit at historic Main Hall on the former Milton College campus showcases how more than 325 Milton Academy students left their classrooms to fight in the Civil ...