Manassas City Council members made clear their position on the question of what to do with the old Jennie Dean Elementary School building during a March 24 joint meeting with the School Board, saying ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic ...

Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...

Florence Griswold site among historic properties once owned by enslavers, rather than a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Unlike Black children who had to leave their neighborhoods to seek an education, white children in Boston had the option to ...

From 1870 to 1872, thanks to the influence of Chloe Merrick Reed, the number of public schools students increased from 7,500 ...

One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...

Visitors to the Old Courthouse, part of the Gateway Arch National Park in downtown St. Louis, will experience a more ...

Local historians are planning to erect historic markers to recognize the lives of two enslaved people who once lived in ...

At the edge of Egypt’s vast Eastern Desert, archaeologists have unearthed haunting evidence of an ancient dark history — ...

The UN marked the International Day of Remembrance for the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, with Secretary-General ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.