President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate-held ...

You’ve probably never heard of Mitchelville – but it might be the most important place you visit in South Carolina - On ...

National Parks have a duty to share the full, messy, complicated story of the founding of the country. As the nation turns ...

So it is worth studying the last time America took over 2m sparsely populated, richly endowed, strateg­ically located square ...

On 1865, America abolished slavery, as it adopted the 13th Amendment into the constitution. The decision came 246 years after ...

Courts of the era were explicit about what that meant. A trial with fewer than 12 jurors was, in the words of South Carolina Chief Justice John Belton O’Neall, “not a trial by jury, in any sense in ...

An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

The jury box in the criminal court at Centre St. in New York City The Supreme Court is set to decide in the next few weeks ...

Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by ...

When CNN political correspondent Kaitlan Collins attempted to ask a follow-up question, Leavitt pivoted to an attack. Not on ...

The deeper cause of the success, the general wrote, will be the character of the people—the frugality, industry, and thirst ...