Slavery is an abhorrent concept, but for most of human history, it was accepted as normal. The widespread collapse of “the ...

Striking down children and adults, women and men, and blacks and whites, smallpox posed a grave threat in Civil War Virginia. “I wonder why nobody has noticed this outbreak until now?” ponders nurse ...

William Mitchel was determined to save his wife and willing to face the British navy to do it.“Sometime in July,” 199 years ago, Mitchel escaped from his master’s farm in Calvert County, according to ...

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

John Reeves - Author, Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant At the beginning of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant wasn’t an abolitionist, admitting that his ...

Drawing from narratives of former slaves collected as part of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), How the Slaves Saw the Civil War presents first-hand testimony in ...

Years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, these people stood up. Black and white, male and female, enslaved and free, they publicly opposed racism and violence and fought for freedom and equality.

bloodiest conflict from the point of view of the people it freed. Larry talks with Ward about his book, "The Slaves' War," which was drawn from interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. It uncovers ...

Abraham Lincoln is responsible for one of the boldest and most far-reaching uses of executive powers in American history by his announcement that enslaved people would soon be "forever free" on this ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Robert K.D. Colby, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, to discuss his new book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South ...

‘It was God’s blessing to the black peoples to come out from bondage, to belong only to theirselves and God, to read about what’s going on in the world and write and figure for theirselves.” So said ...