President Donald Trump’s administration has wiped almost all mentions of slavery from a panel accompanying a portrait of ...

As President Donald Trump seeks to recast how history is told, the Descendants Forum aims to uplift Black stories.

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Michigan played an indirect but key role in the American Revolution.

From slavery to segregation, our state's racial hierarchy persists in today's wealth gaps and disparities—but recent ...

With the arrival of America’s 250th birthday, there’s agreement on at least one thing: we seem utterly divided about what ...

Just days away from America’s 250th birthday — and steps away from where the country itself was born — visitors to the City ...

Caricom Reparations Commission’s Hilary Beckles explains how it will help address the ‘residual legacy of slavery’ ...

The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

A federal court has given President Donald Trump's administration permission to reinstall interpretive panels that critics ...

With a measuring tape and waterproof notepad in hand, genealogist Shellie Baxter swims around a shipwreck embedded into the ...

Virginia historians reflect on slavery's role in funding the Revolutionary War and shaping America's founding ideals as the nation turns 250. As we mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the ...

Archaeologists are searching for shackles and chains that enslaved Black people in a cellar once hidden below a tavern just ...