The House on Jonathan Street,” a PBS movie about a Black neighborhood in Hagerstown, picked up a silver Paris Film Award for ...

Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US ...

(CNN) — Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked across the body of a formerly enslaved Louisiana man, “Scourged Back” is one of the 19th century’s defining photographs. The image was so ...

Shot in 1863, "Scourged Back" was a key image in abolitionists' anti-slavery campaigns during the American Civil War. - McPherson & Oliver/National Gallery of Art EDITOR’S NOTE: In Snap, we look at ...

He grew up in rural Surry County as the youngest of 12 children to a father who paid the bills with a 34-year career ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

Introduction : mapping the Mississippian shatter zone / Robbie Ethridge -- Events as seen from the north : the Iroquois and colonial slavery / William A. Fox -- From refugees to slave traders : the ...

That is, of course, a tried-and-true liberal tactic. When challenged, invoke the ultimate straw man. After all, no sane person seeks to defend slavery or diminish its horrors. But, from the liberal ...

Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked across the body of a formerly enslaved Louisiana man, “Scourged Back” is one of the 19th century’s defining photographs. The image was so widely ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...