In ‘Last Seen’ historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost families, through advertisements ...

Whites who did not own slaves were primarily yeoman farmers. Practically speaking, the institution of slavery did not help these people. And yet most non-slaveholding white Southerners identified ...

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders sharply rebuked Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” ...

Richard Strauss / NMAH After the close of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, some 500 people gathered at the Crown & Anchor Meeting Hall in the city’s West End to drink tea and ...

President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the ...