WASHINGTON — As U.S. lawmakers commemorated the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth this month, many of them could have looked no further than their own family histories to find a more personal ...
Valentin de Boulogne's oil-on-canvas painting “Saint Paul Writing his Epistles” is one of many depictions of Paul and other Christian writers toiling alone, perhaps with the help of the holy spirit or ...
CHEVY CHASE, Md. — Rachel Perić was pushing her stroller through her neighborhood in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic when she noticed an older home with a log cabin on the property — something she ...
A discovery on less than one acre in a remote portion of the vast 1,120-acre home of Andrew Jackson is about to change the landscape and tour experience for the historical museum in east Davidson ...
The project is working to recover the names of people enslaved before 1865. For many Black Americans, tracing one’s family roots back more than 150 years has been nearly impossible due to a lack of ...
BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a ...
Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York The debate about reparations to descendants of enslaved people rages on. In California, the state’s reparations task force has ...
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Here's what Christmas was like in America for enslaved people
For enslaved Americans, the holiday season offered a brief respite and joy for some, while deepening fear, separation, and control for others.
For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only ...
The push to make Juneteenth a federal holiday, which successfully led to the first national Juneteenth observance in 2021, brought a new wave of attention to the history behind this celebration. A ...
Chance Bonar works at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, and is affiliated with their ongoing Slavery, Colonialism, and Their Legacies at Tufts University project. The effects of ...
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