How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

In the spirit of Frederick Douglass’ historic speech, 20 currently and formerly incarcerated Americans explain what ...

To be “antiracist,” the modish catchall term within their peer group that had replaced colorblindness, meant, paradoxically ...

Oops! The planned National Garden of American Heroes accidentally serves to highlight the importance of welcoming ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

The 4th of July is a federal holiday in the United States that commemorates the Continental Congress’s signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.

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Explore America's rich history in North Carolina with stops at Historic Bath, Somerset Place, Edenton, and more. A journey ...

Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...