Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in ...

At a time when public officials are putting limits on the recounting of Black history, Broward County’s African American ...

Research shows most American presidents fade from collective memory within 50 to 100 years, explaining why even Vice ...

15th- 19th Century: The trans- Atlantic Slave Trade: 15 million Africans were enslaved and transported. 19th -20th Century: The European conquest of Africa. In 1870, 10 per cent of the continent was ...

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

An outdoor exhibit of printed canvas panels featuring the inspirational words of a famous 19th Century abolitionist will stay up through the winter at Whittier Birthplace in Haverhill. Created by ...

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans killed 620,000 of their fellow citizens. Most died on battlefields, in an awful war that ...

Revisit forgotten or underrated war TV shows that deserve a second chance, including Transatlantic, Women at War, and 1980's ...

East Coast to West Coast – have been prevalent in this space for years,” said Bun B, who, with partner Pimp C, became pillars ...

Crowned in 1854, Elisabeth of Austria was famous for her luxuriant chestnut hair, which fell to her feet and required hours ...

In Brazil it used to be just another month. Not any more: since last year Brazilians have turned it into “Black Consciousness ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.