HAMPTON — The life of Dinah Small Burdoo, believed to be the last formerly enslaved person to live in Hampton, was honored on ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, ...

California’s Senate Education Committee cleared the way for a bill that would allow colleges and universities to give preference to descendants of slavery in admissions.

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

'Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls' is a recently released graphic novel that tells the story of an escaped slave who secured his freedom during the Civil War by commandeering a Confederate ship ...

On today’s pod we look at Italy’s push to expand tourists’ bucket lists, Trump’s student social media interrogations, and Ritz-Carlton’s latest yacht.

Slavery Wasn’t Simply ‘Capitalism Run Amok’ Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles. Share Resize ...