When you think about Black History Month, several figures likely come to mind, with Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ...

But Claire McCardell was a pioneering outlier. From the 1930s to the 1950s this designer found freedom creating affordable, ...

A Massachusetts city was once home to a famous abolitionist who picked Valentine's Day to celebrate his birth. Frederick Douglass is now forever enshrined in the New Bedford neighborhood where he once ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain are expected to continue pummeling the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states, while ...

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

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

Baltimore is home to the first Black-owned shipyard in the United States, and its history is on full display in Fells Point.

As he celebrated the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865, Frederick Douglass emphasized that pervasive racial discrimination remained an obstacle to the attainment of equal ...

Visitation Hotel just opened in Frederick, Maryland, an underrated city filled with 19th-century buildings and independent shops.

Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells will be featured on newly minted U.S. quarters. Historian Raffi Andonian joins Jenye Donaldson to share Wells' story.

But the thornier question, whether Horton was a citizen and had the rights of a free person to travel, was not yet answered — and it would not be answered until after the Civil War. After ...