Category : History

The Impact of Rape on Enslaved African Men The topic of rape of the enslaved African men is one that the African-Diaspora community and Africans...

Although the town of Nicodemus, Kansas, has since 1996 been designated as a National Historic Site in the United States, the story of how it...

The Stono Rebellion, also known as Cato’s Conspiracy, was a significant event in the history of colonial America. It took place on September 9, 1739,...

A wealthy 19th-century figure who aided enslaved people in escaping via a covert network. Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814–1904), a formidable African-American entrepreneur, abolitionist, and activist,...

Because of the current controversy surrounding Confederate monuments, Robert E. Lee’s connection to slavery crops up repeatedly, as it did most recently in a New York Times article....

The Groveland Four case was a 1940s example of injustice toward young African American men falsely accused of raping white women. The Groveland Four were...

Joel Woodson of Omaha, Nebraska was lynched by a mob in Green River, Wyoming on December 10, 1918, at the Union Pacific Railroad yard. He...

The 1953 wedding of Jacqueline Bouvier and then-Sen. John F. Kennedy was so perfect it is still being talked about more than 65 years later....

By Mehrsa Baradaran The Constitution is riddled with compromises made between the North and South over the issue of slavery — the Electoral College, the...

By Mehrsa Baradaran At the start of the Civil War, only states could charter banks. It wasn’t until the National Currency Act of 1863 and...