‘Liberty or death’ wasn’t Patrick Henry’s most important advice for Americans
Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...
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Black Heritage Trail of NH to host Juneteenth event on Ona Judge
a woman born into slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate who courageously escaped to freedom in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The event features a dramatic reading of Ona Judge’s 1845 ...
Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history
President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that ...
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NY wants to replace statue of slave-owning Founding Father with one of Harriet Tubman
Statues of slave ... Hall in Washington, D.C. houses 100 statues of important historical figures. Each state has two busts or statues in the hall. New York’s other statue depicts George Clinton ...
'Give me liberty or give me death' turns 250. Here's what it meant in 1775
The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia ...
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Musk and the DOGE Team Sit Down for an Interview: ‘This Is a Revolution’
As they say on social media, inject this directly into my veins. In fact, if President Donald Trump achieves nothing besides what his friend and ally Elon Musk described in an interview with Fox News' ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance
Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...
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Hidden Voices: Margaret Lee’s story included a 1795 petition for freedom
This archival document in the Washington County, Tennessee, Archives in Jonesborough is the 1795 petition of a free woman of ...
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Descendants of people enslaved by St. Louis University say they cannot participate in formal apology
St. Louis University was set to apologize for enslaving people. Hours before the ceremony, a group of descendants of Black ...
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George Foreman, 1949-2025
Born on Jan. 10, 1949, in Marshall, Texas, and raised in Houston’s rough-and-tumble Fifth Ward, George Edward Foreman ... Daniel Ross Goodman is a Washington Examiner contributing writer and ...