As the Trump administration pulls down displays on Black history, Wisconsin state Sen. Dora Drake (D-Milwaukee) and Rep.

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has targeted U.S. cultural and historical institutions - from museums to monuments to national parks - to remove what he calls ...

The public fury resulting from the U.S. government's enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Trump administration's immigration policies today are remarkably similar, writes . "It’s not ...

The slavery exhibit removed by the the National Park Service in Philadelphia contained numerous historical inaccuracies.

Tribes and environmentalists say the Interior Department's actions are attempts to erase complete tribal histories from park ...

Yesterday, Governor Josh Shapiro filed an amicus brief in support of the City of Philadelphia’s lawsuit challenging the Trump ...

With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...

George Washington's home in Philadelphia stood on hallowed ground where the ideals of liberty were articulated alongside the ...

Explore the vibrant culture and history of Senegal, West Africa. Discover the resilience of the Senegalese people and the haunting legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

True learning, said William Howard Day, is not the “extent” of memorizing lines from textbooks but the “depth” of knowledge. “And the depth will never be sounded until the mind of the student can by ...

Andrew Craig was born into slavery to a family that owned a farm modeled on a southern plantation envisioned by George ...