Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.

This new law posed the greatest obstacle yet to Boston’s abolition movement, pitting it against emboldened slave owners and the federal government. The West End Museum’s new special exhibit, “An ...

In a world increasingly shaped by secularism and scientific empiricism, a paradox emerges: the enduring belief that history has direction, meaning and purpose—a secularized form of providentialism.

She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, ...

Direct descendants of Jefferson, as well as a number of historians, are interviewed for the six-part docuseries.

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

The Freedom and Slavery Working Group will use a TRAC grant to continue our multi-disciplinary project investigating slavery and its legacies in the present, while integrating our research with ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to ...

History remembers Flora as the hero of the Battle of Great Bridge. A sentry facing an onslaught of volleys, he fired multiple ...

An alliance of Jesuits and descendants of those the order once enslaved aims to achieve restorative justice by modeling terms of an 1838 slave sale.

Slaves do not own their own labor. The maximum tax rate on a 19th century plantation slave’s labor was 50%, as half of his ...