Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

Much of Washington’s wealth was based on slave labor. In his will, he freed 123 of the 300 enslaved African Americans who had made his successful business possible, but while he lived, he expected his ...

Much of Washington’s wealth was based on slave labor. In his will, he freed 123 of the 300 enslaved African Americans who had made his successful business possible, but while he lived ...

Odyssey Bookstore is hosting award-winning author Paul Greenberg for a reading of his new book “ A Third Term ” on Sunday, ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

Rather, the rubric says, the discussion of slavery must also “unpack and ... as there are of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington would be nothing less than a distortion of history.

Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna ... Allen became a licensed lay preacher at predominantly white St. George’s United Methodist Church in Philadelphia. As the African American ...

Arlington is taking a cue from Germany, where “stumbling stones” are embedded near the homes of Holocaust victims.

Trump's vision for "America's Best Idea": a new national park "full of statues" and existing national parks with fewer ...