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 ...

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s order accusing the Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting American history notes correctly that ...

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 ...

Here where slavery flourished ... Conjuring Spirits of the Past: The ghost of George Washington Carver hangs over the studio of Amanda Williams, where hues are inspired by the Alabama soil ...

For most of American history, it was George Washington — the first ... of revisionist historiography that pointed out Washington — a slave-owner — was not perfect. All historiography is ...

Any worthwhile list of Pantheon-level American icons must include men like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. In their day, those great men sometimes quarreled and ...

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 ...

Conyers is returning to her high school on Saturday to see a memorial dedicated to those family members: Margaret, Charlotte and George ... Washington Post in 2021 suggesting that America try this as ...

Although it traces its roots back to plantation-era slavery ... Long before it was an axis for Washington DC's black elite, in the 1800s, Prince George's County was once known to house the ...