Fox News host Brian Kilmeade discussed his book, The President and the Freedom Fighter, about the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass and their accomplishments together.

Author John J. Hanrahan will give a talk Monday at the Hampton History Museum highlighting African American history through ...

Recognizing Frederick Douglass’ gifts as a speaker ... In 1839, the couple published the bestselling American Slavery As It Is, a book made up of first-hand accounts of slavery, handbills ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium, trembling with nervousness. Before him sat abolitionists who had traveled to the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Only 23 years old at the time ...

In September of 1838, former slave Frederick Douglass traveled to Nantucket to hear the publisher of Boston's abolitionist newspaper, William Lloyd Garrison, speak. After hearing Douglass tell his ...

These books have provoked thought ... They included Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the first autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Free ...