America's River Roots is expected to draw people for parties, and a new app can teach them something while they're here.

Seven states have removed the slavery loophole from their constitution — Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Utah, Colorado, ...

Celebrations across the country marked Juneteenth, the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom ...

LEXINGTON — In 1844, Harriet and Lewis Hayden and their son, Joseph, set off from Lexington on the Maysville Road.

In this excerpt from Letter IX of John Rankin’s Letters on American Slavery, Rankin argues that slavery is incompatible with ...