In 1839, a young black sailor named James Covey held the key to freedom for 53 Africans who appeared in a Spanish...
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a skilled propagandist who sometimes creatively remembered events in order to make a point. Or, to put it...
Before the Civil War, Benjamin Roberts lost, and then won, his fight to integrate Boston’s schools. And then after he died, he...
David Wooster is known more as the person who gave New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood its name than for his heroism during...
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? is the popular name of a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on the...