Ken Burns' new six-episode docuseries 'The American Revolution' looks at the attitude George Washington had toward allowing Black men to fight alongside the patriots.

purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. Introduction: Social death in the lands of their forefathers -- A ...

On February 10, AEI’s Yuval Levin and Adam J. White led a symposium about the role slavery played in shaping the Constitution and the founding era. Georgetown Law’s Randy E. Barnett opened the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In Snap, we look at the power of a single photograph, chronicling stories about how both modern and historical images have been made. Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked ...

The African American warrant for reparations : the crime of European enslavement of Africans and its consequences / Molefi Kete Asante -- Reparations : an idea whose time has come / John Conyers Jr.

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 ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones has entered the Jillian Michaels chat with cold, hard facts. After Michaels grossly downplayed the scope of slavery in America during a recent television appearance, Hannah-Jones ...

Trump confirmed White House lawyers will "go through the Museums." President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed the White House is conducting a review of the Smithsonian museums and expressed ...