The Great Abolitionist” by Stephen Puleo is a richly sourced, informative and eminently readable biography of 19th century ...

Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 ...

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

Douglass made history as the first black member of the congressional press galleries in 1871 as he reported for primarily ...

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp, who fought for equality, left marks on Harrisburg that are still visible today.

The monument dedicated to noted abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy recently received a facelift thanks to efforts by the Illinois ...

But one item went a little farther back: a snippet of a receipt that may have been hand-written and signed by a prominent Civil War veteran, abolitionist, Underground Railroad facilitator and pastor.