The Dutch East India Company once wiped out nearly an entire island population over nutmeg. And somehow, none of this made it ...

Wilton Historical Society will host a screening of The Hidden History of Slavery in New York on Thursday, Jan. 22, with Emmy ...

Professor challenges modern American history curriculum in new book, arguing educators present Western culture negatively ...

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...

Exactly 36 years ago on Jan. 13, 1990, Douglas Wilder — the first elected African American governor in the United States — ...

The Weeping Time refers to one of the largest single sales of enslaved people in U.S. History. The land where the auction took place became available for purchase in August ...

Former New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones praises convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur in controversial column, ...

(NEXSTAR) – Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At ...

The sound of 117-year-old organ pipes flows along downtown Charleston streets each Sunday, marking the heartbeat of Mother ...