That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

Andrew Johnson offered several exemptions to his general amnesty after the Civil War.

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

With all the tumult surrounding the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, there is once again an uptick in talk ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

The South Haven Historical Association will hold a presentation Tuesday on the role Southwest Michigan played helping slaves ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Tucked amidst the towering structures of Cleveland’s University Circle, an old brick house stands as a testament to the ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...