Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

At night, I lie awake at night thinking about someone I do not know. During the day, I comb through online archives and newspapers trying to find her. Her name was Cretia, and she was a 14-year-old ...

President Trump ordered the removal of an exhibit highlighting George Washington's participation in slavery. He was wrong to do so.

"A wide-ranging, powerful, alternative vision of the history of the United States and how the slave-breeding industry shaped it. The American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery ...

W hat does it mean to study slavery? To study something means to make arguments based on evidence. But what counts as evidence, and who has the authority to make those determinations? In part because ...

The federal government has removed the memorial to slavery on Independence Mall, but Black history exceeds the limits of historic comfort ...

Attorney and civil rights activist Michael Coard explains the history of the memorial, the latest in the lawsuit over it, and ...

President Trump’s attempts to uplift traitors and racists are the latest in a centuries-old campaign against history by those ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook. As we previously reported, this claim ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MARK FELIX/Getty Images At night, I lie awake thinking about someone I do not know. During the day, I comb through online archives ...