In senior year in my boys New England boarding school English classes we studied American literature. Or, in 21st Century grievance diction, we were brainwashed with the American Renaissance.

After the debate ... A few important points jump out here. First, Douglass twice refers to the Civil Rights Act of 1875 as "protecting the rights and liberties" of citizens.

By the Civil War, America had more capital tied up in slaves than in all other properties and businesses combined, including ...

Educators are launching an inquiry into how the SC Department of Education decided to introduce educational materials from ...

Frederick Douglass stood at the podium ... He conferred with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and recruited northern Black people for the Union Army. After the War he fought for the rights ...

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This ...

Mr. Vorenberg teaches at Brown University and is the author of the forthcoming book “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War.” The Democratic National Convention is over.

That in turn is redefining the very idea of what American fashion means in ways that have little to do with what is happening ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood ...

But instead of living a life as a slave, he escaped bondage and became an influential anti-slavery lecturer and writer. He ...

Visitors touring the property can see original artifacts from the Civil War, Clara Barton ... known contemporary leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.

Eighteen years after the war’s end, the original Tuskegee Airmen ... Dwight also fashioned a statue of Frederick Douglass that is on display at the abolitionist’s historic Anacostia home ...