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A Richmond museum is preparing to open an exhibition in June that will explore the lives of free Black Virginians from 1619 ...
Martha S. Jones honored Jonathan Ocko's legacy with a lecture on legal history, exploring her family's defiance of racial ...
Much like J. Cole’s music reflects his North Carolina upbringing and the journey of making it as a successful rapper while ...
For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of ...
“It’s amazing what he does after Lincoln is assassinated,” says Manisha Sinha, a historian and author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. By the end of 1865, President Andrew ...
Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...
Even “Juneteenth,” the day in June 1865 when Union soldiers arrived ... The postwar constitutional amendments that abolished slavery and extended national citizenship to ex-slaves enabled ...
Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators' Namrata Sen Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 11:30 AM 3 min read ...
Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...
Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the early movers and shakers of Pennsylvania. A German convert to Quakerism, he arrived in Pennsylvania in 1683, a year after William Penn arrived and laid out the ...
There has been a tradition of a village meal in Trimbakeshwar in the name of the village goddess Mahadevi for hundreds of years. The evil practice of cooking separate food for people of a ...