Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

I took a leap of faith—and it led me in search of history’s lost slave ships. SCIENCE. Sunken shipwrecks tell the story of Alaska’s ‘forgotten’ WWII battlefield. HISTORY & CULTURE.