Slavery Abolition

The Clotilda carried 110 men, women and children from Africa to Alabama in 1860.The last ship known to smuggle slaves from Africa to the United States has been discovered in Alabama's Mobile River, nearly 160 years after it was deliberately sunk, a historical…

Researchers working in the murky waters of the northern Gulf Coast have located the wreck of the last ship known to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States, historical officials said Wednesday. A statement by the Alabama Historical Commission …

After eight seasons of rooting for the girl who became the Mother of Dragons and Breaker of Chains, accepting heroine Daenerys Targaryens descent into genocidal madness and ultimate doom was tough to take for many of the millions of viewers who tuned in to th…

For more than two centuries, until the election of 2008, American presidents all looked alike. They were white and male and every one of them came to office with experience in the government, military or both. Barack Obama, the first African-American pres…

Conservative judges are advancing a vision of a country divided by religion, culture, and race, where Christians, white men, and corporate interests get special constitutional protection. We need a strategy to respond. Jedediah Britton-Purdy ▪ May…

Skip to comments. Roe v. Wade Is the Twentieth Century Equivalent of Dred Scott CaseCNS News ^ | OLDER ARTICLE: January 23, 2015 | Lynn Wardle Posted on 05/17/2019 7:29:31 AM PDT by topher January 22, 2015 marked the forty-second ann…

This is the grave of David Hunter. Born in 1802, David Hunter came of age within the northern elite. His grandfather was Richard Stockton, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is probably best known today for having a rest stop named for him on th…

WASHINGTON - While constitutional lawyers, ethicists and theologians — in descending order of importance in the abortion debate — have been arguing in the 46 years since the Supreme Court attempted to settle the debate, some technologists have been making a c…

A colleague volunteered some advice the other day about how I might leap into controversies over changing the honorary names of lakes and buildings and generally disinfecting the present from history’s toxic legacies. I’m not sure it’s wise to join this hist…

A lot of pundits are beginning to caution Democrats that veering too far to the left on policies could damage their prospects in the 2020 race by alienating moderate Democrats and Independents. Here is how Ronald Brownstein introduced the concern. Liberals d…