On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.

The 15th-century Bible, commissioned by Duke Borso D'Este, is rarely seen in public. It was transported to Rome under heavy ...

The modern world has been transformed by inventions from the electric motor to penicillin. Is the mass-produced gun the most ...

Karnish takes literally what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote “all men are created equal.” But to assume that the ...

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats ...

History is the study of change over time, and as The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery shows, the future does not ...

Equiano was a vocal opponent of slavery, adopting the once-widely-held stance of Quakers who saw the act as an affront to humanity.

After being ambushed by a rival group, Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima went from being a Muslim prince and colonel in his father’s army to being enslaved in Mississippi.

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father’s words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had ...