A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children ...

Founded by Thomas Jefferson, the Democratic Party (Democratic-Republican Party) is the oldest political party in the US.

In a close election, a lot of media attention focuses on how different demographic groups might sway the results. Evangelical ...

King Charles III Thursday acknowledged a painful past of Britain and the royal family's profiting from human slavery, but did ...

In the June 3, 1845, issue of Cassius Marcellus Clay’s The True American ... 1800 to 1840. During the early years of the era, ...

From the nation’s beginning, Americans have grappled with who gets educated and who pays for education. Both public and private schools have relied on a combination of public and private funding.

She discovered her third great-grandfather, Albartis Arnwine, owned several enslaved Black women in the mid-1800s ... an exhibit called A Slave's Story by the African American Museum of Southern ...

Over 12 U.S. presidents—more than a quarter—owned slaves during their lives ... both enslaved and free African Americans, ...

A new digital mapping system is shedding light on historic cemeteries in the Charleston area, many of which have ties to the ...

It will anchor a complicated story about race and education, but also resistance, before the American Revolution. The school rationalized slavery within ... is the museum's African American ...