The Trump administraiton is making sure that you can't learn about slavery: National Park Service staff on Thursday took down an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in.
Annette Gordon-Reed's new essay about Jefferson's contradictions is well worth your time. We live in an era when Blacks and Whites, despite the end of de jure segregation, tend to.
On October 10, 1842, a planter Eli Capell noted the precise amount of cotton picked by each of his slaves in his logbooks. This seemingly minor moment is in fact.
As we enter the Second Jim Crow, there is no place for Black history in America's stories of itself. Quite literally: The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs.
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stumbled upon Hispaniola. Part of the revolution he wrought was transforming work in the Americas, because what he wanted and how he treated the.
There's a new study out looking at the wealth of members of Congress whose ancestors owned slaves compared with members of Congress whose ancestors did not own slaves. Will it.
This is the grave of John Armfield. One of the most disgusting human beings to ever live in this country, Armfield was born in 1797 in North Carolina, His parents.
This is the grave of Pierce Butler. Born in 1744 in Garryhundon, County Carlow, Ireland, Butler grew up in the Protestant elite ruling over Ireland with less than a mild.
