1941 Topics Slave history, American history, US history, slaves, slavery, slave stories, slave interviews Collection opensource Language English Item Size 235.4M Slave Narratives A Folk History of ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim ...

The French engineer Gustave Eiffel’s plan sketch was found to have been changed to help the statue withstand weather like ...

Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump in May. Geoff Bennett recently spoke with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration’s ongoing ...

Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War.

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When possible, she includes descriptions of the homes from the enslaved African-Americans who lived in them. A slave house in Prince William County, Virginia, in 1959. Library of Congress ...

World Zionist Congress election results: Surge in US turnout, Reform slate wins most support The second-highest vote-getter was a new Orthodox slate focused on young adults.

The dispute began on May 8, when the Trump administration emailed Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress since 2018, and told her she was fired. Hayden’s deputy, Robert Newlen, became acting ...

Dr. Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress, is breaking her silence about her unceremonious firing by the Trump administration after serving on the job for nearly a decade.