Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But ...

The Capitol Region Land Conservancy (CRLC) has donated more than four acres of land to the City of Richmond, protecting the Trail of the Enslaved after years fighting for full ownership.

Stolen Relations, a public database set to launch on Saturday, May 10, reveals the stories of thousands of Native people ...

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

Historians say it is possible that George Laurens is among the 20 people buried in unmarked Mepkin graves that abut the small ...

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

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

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

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 ...

saying his grandfather "walked off to war in 1860 for one reason — and that was to defend the State of North Carolina. Nothing to do with slavery." For him, Wood said the confederacy has "never ...