There is danger in clinging to erroneous information when presented with contradictory evidence. It's a threat to our past and our future.

This month marks the 250th anniversary – the semiquincentennial – of a document enacted almost exactly a year before the ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

1922—Samuel L. Gravely is born. Gravely became the first African Amer­ican admiral in the United States Navy and the first ...

We're headed south to the Gulf Coast, like so many other Arkansans this time of year. My wife must have her coffee fix, and ...

The first Africans in Virginia were followed by more than 400,000 people captured and brought directly from West and central African to the North American slave ports, from New England to New Orleans.

John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine house awaiting reinforcements by a swarm of "bees"—slaves from the surrounding area. But only a handful showed up. Library of ...

Undeterred, nearly 3,000 people showed up anyways. John Wilkinson, the man who named the Village of Syracuse back in 1825, let the crowd assemble in his newly completed engine roundhouse.

Located on what is now the perimeter of Central Park from W. 82nd to W. 89th Sts., Seneca Village had approximately 225 residents by 1855.

EDENTON By 1855, John Swanson Jacobs had fled slavery in North Carolina, escaped on a whaling ship, circled the globe from Peru to Alaska, tried his hand at gold mining and — in his spare time ...