One year after the first shots of the Civil War were fired at nearby Fort Sumter, the Planter’s three white officers went ...

The National Park Service has awarded the Missouri Botanical Garden $99,920 because of its connection to slavery.

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy. The USS ...

Eventually, the Amistad was seized by the United States near Long Island in New York ... But Townsend’s work—devoid of the ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

A self-guided walking tour in Wooster is shedding light on the city’s African American history, showing how the past is woven ...

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

"Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn" at the Center for Brooklyn History grapples with the ...