Chicago Founder and Haitian Revolutionary Jean Baptiste Point du Sable Chicago Founder Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ...

An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a white man who seized a Black family and forced ...

During the height of slavery in the 1800s, enslaved African people were treated as legal property and commodities, bought and ...

William Galvin, secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is launching an exhibition celebrating the 250th anniversary ...

Unveiling a new monument to Black patriots from the Northern Neck who fought in the Revolutionary War are Charles Belfield, past president of the James Monroe Chapter SAR; Charles Jameson, past ...

However, despite several defeats, and the loss of New York (former New Amsterdam) in September 1776, Washington hung on, and ...

This year, the Woodville plantation turns 250 years old. It's one of the local locations that held slaves in the Pittsburgh ...

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

“The 14th Amendment Right of American Citizenship never had anything to do with modern day “gate crashers,” illegal immigrants who break the Law by being in our Country, it had everything to do with ...

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that the 14th Amendment right to American citizenship never ... with granting citizenship to former slaves. The President stated this in a ...