Although it is little known, the German Coast Uprising in an area near New Orleans was the largest slave revolt in the ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds ...

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 ...

Discover the restoration of the Williamsburg Bray School, America's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, and its ...

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.

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

As John Adams saw the political world, there were essentially three main forms of government—monarchy, aristocracy, and ...

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 ... the museum’s African American ...