Frederick Douglass's 1852 Fourth of July speech highlighted the hypocrisy of celebrating independence while slavery still ...

Here’s how three French idealists—an abolitionist, a sculptor and the engineer behind the Eiffel Tower—brought the ...

The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s push to ...

On the 200 manicured acres of the Whitney Plantation stands the pristine white main house, built with the blood and sweat of ...

These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...

Christians often have been reminded that some of their forebears supported slavery, but many do not know Christians ended slavery in the United States. Southern Baptists, in particular, frequently are ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester ...

In honor of the U.S. Semiquincentennial, a recent poll asked Americans what the United States has done best since declaring ...

Publicly and behind the scenes, the president continues to try to impose his own views of American history and culture, ...

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Michigan played an indirect but key role in the American Revolution.

The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History has embraced "extreme political activism" rather than ...