This historic townhouse in the heart of Washington, D.C.’s desirable Dupont Circle neighborhood hosted the wedding of ...

Three years later, after a speaking tour of England ... would last into the Civil War. Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans.

It was an assertion of hard-won personal sovereignty: Frederick Douglass ... of the collective.” Although Douglass entered the post–Civil War era asking only that blacks at last be left ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American ...

The Civil War had ... and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops. Black recruiters, many of them abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet ...

Then, leaders in the party refuse to say the Civil War is about slavery ... “Black Republicans like Frederick Douglass helped to build the Republican Party. Douglass is rolling in his ...

The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick Douglass married his second wife, Helen Pitts, in 1884 has found a ...

Nearly 150 years after the Civil War, Bill Gwaltney explains why its lessons are still ... history didn’t truly begin until the late 1980s, when he was working at Frederick Douglass National Historic ...

No Cowards in Our Band,” will be performed, 7 p.m. Nov. 2 at Hudson Hall, featuring actor Masud Olufani as Douglass.

In addition to her work leading slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad, Tubman headed reconnaissance parties and ...

37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War ... was that this war would either cut the country in two or see it become entirely free. Black Americans knew this. Frederick Douglass saw that they ...