In ‘Last Seen’ historian Judith Giesberg explores how formerly enslaved people tried to reunite with their lost families, through advertisements ...

Explore the revolutionary act of saving money and building generational wealth by African American ancestors. Discover their ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

This Saturday is the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord ...

Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

The militiamen who stood in defiance on Lexington Green are the first who fired upon the British regulars, but the road to revolution was paved long before gunfire erupted on that cold April morning ...

For many decades, archaeologists were convinced that the first people to arrive in the ... It’s possible that they reached North America more than 32,000 years ago. Now, “we need lots more ...

Investigation revealed that the manuscript could be an original version of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's, the first "mestizo" ...