The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it ...

Contrary to popular progressive opinion, slaves did not build America. Rather, the institution of slavery harmed America ...

The "Abolition Acre" self-guided walking tour was recently established by the nonprofit Beacon Hill Scholars to raise ...

A viral Annabelle meme about a burning plantation uncovers hidden history; linking horror tropes to Black spirituality, and ...

Operatives and influencers aligned with the movement — which has made the treasonous Confederacy into a cause célèbre and ...

The Philadelphian came to see that the ideals he championed — liberty, self-determination, human dignity — could not coexist ...

A proposal to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the burial grounds for enslaved people is sparking public outcry ...

As part of a broader Trump directive reaching across the government and the country, the park service is under orders to review interpretive materials at all its historical properties and remove or ...

One of the earliest figures known to have faked an illness for personal advantage was Odysseus. Odysseus was the hero of ...