This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant ...

The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...

Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural ...

Today, this question bitterly divides the Jewish people. But it is not the first time it has done so. Passover begins this ...

American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery By Richard Kreitner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32 The ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

"When we see efforts to erase our history...it's actually going to make us weaker [and] less informed," said Alan Spear tells ...

New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...

In an era of contention over race, gender, colonialism and the treatment of Indigenous peoples, figures on both the left and ...

In the 19th century, debates about contract workers sorted immigrants into "natural" and "unnatural" categories.

Most retellings of Black history in the United States start with Britain’s city ... modern grappling with the nation’s original sin of slavery. However, as far too few historians have noted ...

Trump's threat to withhold federal funds because of "improper ideology" could have a chilling effect on the museum's ...