In 1811, enslaved people along Louisiana's German Coast organized the largest slave revolt in United States history. The beginning of chattel slavery in North America birthed something else ...

In the wake of the burning of Nottoway "Plantation & Resort," there has been a flurry of conversation all over social media ...

The election of 1860 was one of the most fractured in American history ... within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” The monstrous institution of slavery was ...

As Blackburn perceptively shows, the history of imperialism is intertwined with the long afterlives of slavery rather than the rise of abolition. When Blackburn turns to the United States ...

"Juneteenth is an acknowledgment of the truth of our nation's history," Biden said ... the 13th Amendment that abolishes slavery everywhere in the United States and its territories.

Historians at Brown University and Tribal members from across New England are launching a project they hope will bring ...

The United States is commonly regarded today as a symbol of power, innovation, and cultural influence, but its origins were far from straightforward.

By the 1850s, multiple states had outlawed expressing anti-slavery sentiments—which ... (Read more about the complex early history of abortion in the United States.) A unique single-copy ...

which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, a federal holiday. The measure was passed in the House and Senate with bipartisan support. “Throughout history, Juneteenth has been ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday acknowledged how the horrific history of slavery has connected the United States and Angola while delivering a hopeful vision for the future in a major speech from a ...

Blackburn recounts the long undoing of the “second slavery” in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil. Charting this history from the early 19th century to the American Civil War and the eventual ...