Landmark rulings that help shape American society—like Brown v. Board of Education or Obergefell v. Hodges—are descendants of a long line of past cases that often fade into obscurity. Albert ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how ...

Bernard Lynch’s “Slave Pen” at 5th and Myrtle Streets was the epicenter of the slave trade in St. Louis in 1852. (Credit: Public Domain.) Listen NEW YORK – A new report on the history of slavery in ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- The University of Alabama apologized Tuesday to the descendants of slaves who were owned by faculty members or who worked on campus in the years before the Civil War. The apology - ...

IN THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP (AP) The oppressive heat, venomous serpents and boot-snatching muck that made the Great Dismal Swamp a barrier to European settlement ever since colonial times also made it a ...

Juneteenth remembers the moment in 1865 when slaves in Texas first learned of the Emancipation Proclamation and were belatedly given freedom two months after the Civil War’s end. Southern California ...