Harriet Tubman

If there’s anything the 2010s taught us, it’s that there is no getting these stories right, no honoring with grace the dead and ghosts.

The righteous rage of John Brown.

Few people know about the movement to kidnap free black Americans and traffic them into slavery. It's time to change that.

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.

The March for Our Lives organizers are not an anomaly, but follow in a long tradition of youth activism in America.

American portraiture with its visual allure and pictorial storytelling made gun ownership desirable.

The actions of attorneys general in California and other states have their antecedents in the fight against that draconian law.

For some time now, the answer has not been the abolitionists.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.

Andrew Jackson deserves nothing but contempt from modern America, not a place on our currency.