A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history ...

Growing up, Dominique Williams visited her grandmother every weekend. And on each trip, she was greeted by a piece of her past, a name stitched in fabric, filled with centuries of legacy and mystery. ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - According to a recent study, 37% of the Columbus population was enslaved by 1860. The history behind slavery is a very dark history, from being chained, whipped, raped, and ...

Akron played a pivotal role in the abolitionist movement from John Brown to Sojourner Truth.

I have a message for President Donald Trump, his administration and anyone who hopes the world will forget what happened in this country. Slavery in the United States was a brutal and dehumanizing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump’s war on history appears to have widened, with The Washington Post reporting that his administration has ordered the ...

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...

Bob Miller knows he’s tilting at windmills. For the past year, the retired Atlanta attorney has tried to get the University System of Georgia to erase a blot on the heart of UGA’s campus: Rutherford ...