Frederick Douglass

After an African-American cemetery was bulldozed, families wondered what happened to the graves.

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”

As part of its “1619” inquiry into slavery's legacy, The New York Times revives 19th century revisionist history on the founding.

It made it impossible to limit the size and scope of the federal government. Conservatives need to recognize that.

On the integrated Union regiments composed of white, black, and native men who fought in the Civil War's western theatre.

By naming a common enemy the Union Army was able to build and then steer a coalition of Americans toward the systematic destruction of slavery.

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.

The declaration's words and sentiments have inspired nations and movements around the world.

A new book rescues the Poor People’s Campaign from its reputation as a desperate last cry of the civil rights movement.

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history?

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.

What we miss when we tell the story of women's rights activism as a strictly national tale.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

One hundred years later, it’s time to challenge a long-held bias.

Following in the footsteps of 20th century African Americans, Ethelene Whitmire experiences a 21st century transatlantic crossing.

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.

The problem of how to reconcile irreconcilable values is what led to the Civil War. It hasn’t gone away.

From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.

The Colored Convention Movement, black citizenship, and the Fourteenth Amendment.

After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.