During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

The history of enslaved firefighters offers a cautionary tale about the dangers of relying on involuntary labor to fight ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Old Bayview Cemetary is one of the city's oldest burial places-- and it's not segregated. In it, lay the remains of a Black ...

When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against slavery to conduct combat as a soldier and spy for the United States Army. She offered her services to a ...

Peter R. Kolchin, Henry Clay Reed Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware and recipient of the University's Francis Alison Award, died at home on Jan. 13, 2025. The cause of death ...