As President Donald Trump seeks to recast how history is told, the Descendants Forum aims to uplift Black stories.
It is a tradition at the Nevada Current that each Fourth of July we publish excerpts from the famous speech delivered by ...
On February 10, AEI’s Yuval Levin and Adam J. White led a symposium about the role slavery played in shaping the Constitution and the founding era. Georgetown Law’s Randy E. Barnett opened the ...
The history of slavery in America is one of the most documented, studied, and also most misunderstood subjects in the American story. Most of us absorbed some version of it in school, maybe reinforced ...
Host Al Letson visits Bryan Stevenson’s Montgomery, Alabama, memorials confronting slavery's legacy as the US turns 250.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the ...
Long before the first shots were fired in the Civil War, beginning early in the 19th century, Americans had been fighting a protracted war of words over slavery. On one side, Southern planters and ...
The Declaration of Independence established a principle that ultimately doomed slavery, even if it could not abolish the institution overnight.
Peter, also known as Gordon, showing the wounds on his back after being whipped by his enslaver. He was the subject of photographs documenting the extensive scarring of his back from whippings ...
Rabbi David Einhorn, an American abolitionist. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, ...
The first nude sculpture of a woman widely seen by the American public depicted a slave, just decades before the Civil War. Measured Perfection: Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave now at the Smithsonian ...
General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...