“In Slavery’s Wake,” at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, looks beyond the United States to tell a global story. By Jennifer Schuessler See more of our coverage in your ...

The history of slavery in America is one of the most documented, studied, and also most misunderstood subjects in the ...

Why focus just on the transatlantic slave trade? Because the United Nations is engaged in a long-running con to extract reparations from the West by accusing it, and specifically the United States, of ...

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than ...

Prologue: A house divided -- Introduction: The slave power -- Section 1: The age of revolution. Impious prayers : slavery and the revolution ; Half slave and half free : the founding of the United ...

Mississippi's own documents from 1861 show the state seceded from the Union to protect slavery, not states' rights. Where did Lost Cause come from?

Here are ten shocking facts about slavery and American descendants of chattel slavery who survived the unthinkable in the United States. Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in ...

On Tuesday, President Trump attacked the narrative long taught in US schools and documented in museums, about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery. He focused on The Smithsonian ...

President Donald Trump‘s latest remark about slavery has put renewed scrutiny on the Smithsonian museums, which are currently under internal review by the White House to “remove divisive or partisan ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore a historical exhibit at the President’s House site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recognizing the story of nine slaves of former President ...