The Blairsville Underground Railroad Museum shares the stories of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond ...

Nor, despite our warning against prediction, did we doubt it would end badly for the South. The North had factories and ...

Reaching for parallels in the Revolution and abolition, Americans are no longer debating conventional public policy. We are ...

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

Black History Month remains necessary. When people ask why it matters, the better question is why so many have tried to erase ...

Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday ...

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...

Residents and guests at the Covenant Living Holmstad in Batavia learned about “Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on ...

Fry and Ferguson appear frequently in newspaper articles. In addition to welcoming Douglass, the duo organized civic events ...

Several milestones are being celebrated this month by descendants of important Black figures from Maryland who helped shape ...

Afghanistan’s stance on slavery has undergone a dramatic legal reversal in recent years. Under the Taliban’s current governance, since 2021, the country’s new ...