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

Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the end of the Civil War. Narratives of the Black families who harbored fugitives ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Historians warn of the complexity of competing against social networks and the popularity of far-right YouTubers ...

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

February is Black History Month in Canada. Check out this list of buzzworthy works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black ...

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

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