A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist Churches in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...