Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

With help from Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research, the mural draws attention to the activism of 19th-century ...

There is a phenomenon in some sectors where science is seen as beyond social influence – that scientific fact is inherently ...

One of the vessels, “Poem Jar,” features hints of Drake’s financial exploitation and forced separation from a woman believed ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Henry Moxley led the fight to desegregate Buffalo Public Schools in the late 1800s. According to Uncrowned Community Builders, Moxley, escaped from slavery in his home state of ...

The exhibition confronts the mythology of the Confederacy by placing toppled monuments in dialogue with contemporary works ...

Zohran Mamdani, the leading mayoral candidate, signed a pledge to champion reparations policies. Is it hype or a real possibility?

Reparations for slavery and historic discrimination against African Americans once seemed like a pipe dream. But momentum for it has been building in the past five years in cities across America, ...

The international tour brings U.S. and German leaders to sites of racial violence, urging honest remembrance of slavery and a ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

John Osman, who has died aged 96, was a journalist who reported from more than 100 countries, first for the Telegraph, and ...