Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate Independence Day, we look at why July 4 is not a cause for celebration for all. For Native Americans, it may be a bitter reminder of colonialism, which ...

Slavery and arguments about race were not only at the heart of the American founding; it was what united the states in the first place. We have been reluctant to admit just how thoroughly the Founding ...

Many political and social progressives are eager to redefine America as starting not in 1776, which is truly and literally when the very title “United States of America” began, but in the year 1619, ...

With its racially diverse cast and infectious soundtrack, “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award winning 2015 musical, upended the conventional understanding of Broadway theater and shaped how ...

The slave ban was widely ignored when Oglethorpe left Georgia for good in 1743, and its enforcement dwindled in his absence. By the time American colonists declared independence in 1776, slavery had ...

The “history wars” have heated up as more schools debate whether America’s founding goes back to Independence Day in 1776 or to the first Africans facing slavery in 1619 Virginia. A growing number of ...

With its racially diverse cast and infectious soundtrack, “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 musical, upended conventional understanding of Broadway theater and shaped how Americans view the ...