The Zorg struggled, plagued by poor weather and low provisions. Scurvy spread among the ranks. Collingwood slipped into a ...

America's conflicted history over its treatment of immigrants and what President Lincoln might say about today's immigration ...

The crisis had begun with slavery. Of the more than 3 million Black Americans in 1848, nearly 90% were held in bondage. They lived and worked on Southern farms owned by the same white men who claimed ...

Susana Quinonez was born and raised on an abaca tree plantation along Ecuador's western coast where back-breaking work and ...

A team of researchers are sifting through archival documents, artifacts even artwork to expand the story of Indigenous slavery.

Sitting in a mildly cramped, dimly lit room, I, along with several other guests from the Medford area, waited with bated ...

I interviewed every president since Nixon. Our nation's identity and future have always been on a fierce and extraordinary ...

A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.

Collective political education and organizing become particularly important during periods when the government is cracking ...

Few places along the Mississippi River tell America s story of belief as vividly as Quincy, the river city perched on the bluffs in the westernmost point of Illinois ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...