Built by former slaves, the mill was so famous that W.E.B. DuBois included pictures of the building in an exhibit at the ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...