Race, Slavery & Emancipation

5+ hour, 9+ min ago   (200+ words) Native American powwows are important cultural celebrations, but this one in Bermuda memorializes events often hidden in American history: the large-­scale enslavement of Indigenous people and the simultaneous taking of Native land. The ancestors of the Bermuda powwow attendees…...

4+ hour, 55+ min ago   (568+ words) You are probably familiar with the Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times." Such was the course of life of the Marquis de Lafayette. As Americans, we are likely not to understand that the French nobleman's life involved far…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (110+ words) Britain and America. One Story, Two Nations. 2026 marks the 250 anniversary of the signing of a document that changed the world: The US Declaration of Independence. They are recognising this momentous period in British American history with a powerful free exhibition…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (391+ words) ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos The enslaved people who built America "GMA" shares an exclusive report from ABC News in collaboration with the 10 Million Names Project on the hidden history of the White House and a historic…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (221+ words) The Academy of Sciences today commemorated Zef Krispi, also known as Giuseppe Crispi, on the anniversary of his death. He was a bishop, Hellenist and professor at the University of Palermo, and one of the 19th-century Arbëresh scholars who devoted…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (524+ words) SIDNEY — Dr. Brian Matthew Jordan will be one of the headline speakers at this year’s Civil War Living History Weekend, scheduled for Sept. 19-20 at Tawawa Park. Jordan will speak about the 107th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Saturday at 10 a.m. and Union…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (878+ words) Listen to the AI generated audio article. That’s what this pattern in Armenian history ultimately comes down to: holding on to a sense of who you are, in a world that keeps hinting your existence might be up for debate....

3+ day, 47+ min ago   (195+ words) As part of the 2nd edition of "The Making of Diplomacy" an initiative of the Diplomatic and Consular Academy of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Haiti in France organized the following events on September 5th and 6th: a…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (693+ words) By Michael J. Reitz This article originally appeared in The Detroit News July 7, 2026. As we celebrate America’s 250 years, consider the story of William Quincy Atwood, who was born into slavery but died as one of Saginaw’s wealthiest businessmen. Atwood was born…...

3+ day, 25+ min ago   (176+ words) On 1 May 1943, during World War II, the British troop ship SS Erinpura was sailing in an Allied convoy in the Mediterranean when a Nazi Luftwaffe aircraft attacked north of Benghazi, Libya. The ship was struck and sank rapidly. Among the…...