In honoring African-American cultural heritage, let’s engage the cross-racial perspective of William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) ...

The old stone schoolhouse is gone — disassembled in the 1950s with its materials carted off to Vermont. But what happened at Dean’s Corner Schoolhouse lives on, thanks to a William G. Pomeroy ...

The authors say that the inclusion of birthright citizenship in the Constitution in 1868 has ramifications that apply in today's debate in Congress.

Maryland may have been a Union state, but before the Civil War, it certainly had a number of plantations whose owners bought a number of slaves. And those contradictions, and the families involved ...

His father recognized one catcher and fled, leaping 20 feet from a bedroom window, according to an account from Garnet's friend, abolitionist Alexander Crummell. His mother escaped to a nearby ...

A new documentary called, “Underground: Freedom Stories Along the Borderlands,” looks at the growth of abolitionism in ...

As people across the country experience these issues, which affect everyone in different ways, it’s important that we learn ...

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