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

In the annals of finest-hour mythmaking, there are two abiding articles of faith: first, that the United Kingdom bravely ...

Hate speech against Tutsi communities in DR Congo is an ongoing, serious issue described as reaching alarming levels - particularly in the country’s east - and is recognized as a precursor to ...

Beckert's book, a sweeping 1,300-page history, synthesizes bits and pieces of the academic literature to recount the ...

A Boston bookseller named Henry Knox led an incredible effort to bring cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge and Boston ...

The Christmas Rebellion, led by Baptist leader Samuel Sharpe, challenged slavery and reshaped the nation’s history.

Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism African leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognised, criminalised and ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Farah Nibbs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ...

Old Santee Canal Park in Moncks Corner went back in time Saturday, Sept 28. Those passionate about the Revolutionary War and the time period re-enacted the era in dress and technique as the area’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... History exhibits take us back in time, but they cannot escape the moment in which they were created. That is to say, every display of artifacts and ...

Independence National Historical Park hosts some of the nation’s preeminent places of history. But what was the area like before the park was established in 1949? Independence Hall sits now ...

WHITTIER, Alaska — Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska’s Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it’s reachable by just a single road, through a ...