On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.

“W hen shall we hear the joyfull sound … that slavery is no more?” So asked Jupiter Hammon, an enslaved man whose life in New ...

Karnish takes literally what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote “all men are created equal.” But to assume that the ...

Detroit’s Reparations Task Force has submitted its long-anticipated report of recommendations to the City Council for programs to repair harms and compensate Black residents for historically ...

The cast is extensive with over 60 voice actors appearing, including Hollywood celebrities Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Tom ...

Americans have begun celebrating the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary war that freed our nation from Britain’s monarchy ...

From there, we leapt over centuries of empire, slavery and revolution in America to arrive triumphantly at the First and ...

Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on6.

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

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.