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

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

Tevin Studdard is teaching a new bookmaking class for adults in Indianapolis, where they learn to create and publish their ...

Narratives by formerly enslaved writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup were critical to ...

Born into slavery on Maryland's extern shore in 1818, Frederick Douglass spent several years in Baltimore, where he learned to read. Douglass viewed his newfound literacy as the key to knowledge ...

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 ...

In the fall of 2023, C-SPAN partnered with the Library of Congress to produce the series, Books That Shaped America. The series explored key works from American history that have had a major ...