Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the ...

A rival Advanced Placement curriculum is offering a dangerous view of the Constitution and America's founders ...

Anne Arundel County held A Day of Acknowledgement: Confronting the Legacy of Slavery event, at the Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, which included an apology from County Executive Steuart Pittman ...

The Declaration nearly included a sweeping attack on slavery. Here’s why it was cut—and what it reveals about the Founders.

Much of the power of the Declaration of Independence rests on Thomas Jefferson’s opening line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a White man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to free enslaved Black Americans years before the American Revolution. Jefferson ...

The history of slavery in America is one of the most documented, studied, and also most misunderstood subjects in the American story. Most of us absorbed some version of it in school, maybe reinforced ...

In July 1860, just a few days after Americans celebrated the country’s independence, a schooner slipped into Alabama’s Mobile Bay, carrying 110 captives. Their first exposure to the land of the free ...

(NOTE: An earlier version of this story misstated the amount of damages due to an editing error. The correct total is $6 million. The new center is in Jackson Park in ...