As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about ...

Slavery wasn't a footnote in American economic history. It was the engine that built national prosperity. The post How Slavery Built America and the Modern Economy appeared first on The Amazing Times.

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ideas have gained currency in recent years, making it likely that the nation’s ...

Moore uses the lens of American history, and slavery to provide a view into why the clashes occurred, and what to expect going forward under President Donald Trump. Subscribe to his Youtube Channel at ...

Rabbi David Einhorn, an American abolitionist. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, ...

The standard American classroom version of slavery can be summarized in a few sentences: it happened in the South, it lasted until Lincoln freed the enslaved with the stroke of a pen, most Southerners ...

RICHMOND — Lucy Mead, born into slavery and sold multiple times after age 9, had been free for 30 years when she took out a newspaper ad with a simple plea: “I would like to find my people,” she wrote ...

People rally to celebrate the reinstallation of a slavery exhibit at the historic President’s House Site, February 19, 2026, in Philadelphia. Credit: Joe Lamberti/AP Photo Philadelphia’s President’s ...

President Donald Trump escalated his campaign to purge cultural institutions of materials that conflict with his political directives on Tuesday, alleging museums were too focused on highlighting ...

Sometime around 1860, Spaniards attacked a Navajo settlement in New Mexico and captured a woman named Ated-bah-Hohzoni, meaning “happy girl.” As she hid behind a cliff with her one-year-old daughter, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. These two sides of the argument over how we remember Washington are the inspiration ...