A map shows the distribution of the slave population in the Southern states of the United States, based on the 1860 census. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division As the 2016 election ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

The Quakers provided property for their freed slaves in West Harrison, on hardscrabble land deemed marginal for farming. By 1860 ... said that “present tax maps of the town show that the ...

Massachusetts was one of the original 13 colonies that founded the United States. Known as the “Bay State,” there are loads of things to do in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has a rich history, art, ...

When the anti-slavery Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, Southern states began pulling out ... of his ‘reign’, he was putting San Francisco on the map as a place that ...

While the Trump administration tries to downplay matters of race and racism in US history, the minister of a Providence ...

PULLEN, Secretary to the Leeds Young Men's Anti-Slavery Society ... IPSWICH, March 23, 1860. Advertisement ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

A Minneapolis writer is determined to walk each of his city’s 87 neighborhoods. This is his chronicle of Near North’s Oak ...

Yet industrialization, rising immigration, and the slavery debate were reshaping the country. Between 1815 and 1860, over 5 million immigrants arrived. New York City’s population surged from ...

The colonies of New York, Maryland, and South Carolina were expected to provide flour and rice for the slave-powered tobacco and sugar plantations in Virginia and the Caribbean. Britain prohibited ...