Chautauqua County was home to more than 1,100 anti-slavery activists between 1835 and 1860, the period leading up to the ...

A global network of maritime archeologists is excavating slave shipwrecks—and reconnecting Black communities to the deep.

John Adams Knight, whose house sits in Auburn's West Pitch Park, acknowledged that once he backed the North, it was a trying ...

President Donald Trump's assertion that Canada should become the 51st state would likely lead to major Democratic electoral ...

Author Frances Levine tells the stories of a mix of women, each with different and very personal reasons for taking America’s ...

Bader-King is the executive director of the Wornall/Majors House Museums, a three-person nonprofit that manages the two Civil ...

Henry “Box” Brown’s idea to ship his way to freedom might have been the most successful disappearing act of all time.

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Lord BROUGHAM and the veterans of the old Anti-Slavery Society do not, we fear, share our delight at this great increase in the employment of our home population. Their minds are still seared by ...

It was Jan. 31, 1865, John Ganson was sitting in Congress waiting for the roll call to approve the 13th Amendment. The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le ...