Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...

President Nayib Bukele offered to house American prisoners in El Salvador's "mega-prison" — in exchange for a fee ...

The most damning moment in Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearing happened when Bernie Sanders asked him a very simple ...

Historical and sociological perspectives reveal why certain societies or subgroups resist change, often rooted in cultural ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the constitution on a ...

Jim Crow, a term drawn from a racist caricature, describes a long period of segregation and racial violence in the United ...

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

When you think about slavery in the United States you probably think about it happening in the deep south in the 1800’s and causing the Civil War. However, slavery was ...

Inside the B&O Railroad Museum, you'll find centuries' worth of railroad history. Much of it is also Black history.

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue ...

Portraits of enslaved people from the 19th century are unusual. But a Connecticut artist named William H. Townsend decided to ...

The well-loved architectural feature is a staple of the American South, but its roots can be traced to Africa.