That Native Americans did not make very good slaves made little difference in the commerce of slavery in early colonial ...

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in the case of two enslaved African Americans, their portraits set off a historic chain ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

Southern Living has recognized the Lexington childhood home of an often misunderstood, yet politically savvy and personally ...

Zaakir Tameez is the author of “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” to be released on June 3.

The monks of Mepkin Abbey have unveiled a garden space honoring enslaved buried in unmarked graves on their South Carolina ...

The term “past wrongs” referred to an alleged association, effective between 1723 and 1739, of certain historic endowments of ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

From Jefferson Davis at Valentine Museum to stalled bridge renaming, Virginia faces ongoing debates over history and progress ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes she is a descendant ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes ...

The enslaved people in the photos are alleged descendants of Tamara Lanier, who accused Harvard of capitalizing on the images ...