On Wednesday, the U.S., Israel, and Argentina were the only countries to reject the formal recognition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade—which saw millions of Africans kidnapped, trafficked, ...

Three history books on the US slave trade. This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Gregory E. O’Malley, The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the ...

Visions of America For the 250th, we asked seven leading historians to profile a founding-era American whose story has rarely been told. See the project. In August 1781, an enslaved woman named ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, the subject of slavery and its connection to the Founding Fathers can be a complicated topic to discuss, historians ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city—one of ...

Virginia historians reflect on slavery's role in funding the Revolutionary War and shaping America's founding ideals as the nation turns 250. As we mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the ...

The panels telling the story of the nine slaves of President George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia have ...

Are Americans one people, or many? Our national motto, “e pluribus unum,” seems to offer the definitive answer to the question: We are many, but one. Even on the verge of the Civil War, Abraham ...

The Declaration of Independence accused the king and Parliament of Great Britain of "exciting domestic insurrections" among the half-million people enslaved in the American colonies. This was a ...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis travels to the Whitney and Woodland Plantations in Louisiana to uncover the brutal realities of ...