The growth of industry disrupted old economic patterns but produced undreamed-of wealth.

In 1804, Ohio passed “Black Laws” that barred testimony, schools, and jobs for Black residents—proving freedom in the North ...

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While other places in the US are increasingly censoring how they tell their multicultural histories to travellers, one ...

Culminating a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, historian Gillian Tindall wrote Journal Of A Man Unknown as her final statement. In an astonishing feat of literary imagination, she ...

His experience is a marked departure from that of his parents and grandparents, who grew up at a time when the practice was ...

Brazilian Church organisations criticised the huge police operation carried out in Rio de Janeiro on 28 October which ...

Pope Leo appealed for a ceasefire and humanitarian access in the Sudanese state of North Darfur after the fall of its capital ...

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has labelled as “attempted murder” the arson attack at an IPAS centre in Drogheda last weekend. Mr O’Callaghan castigated the perpetrators and said their actions would ...

By Catherine Gauldin as retold to Beverly Belcher Woody  Through my continued ancestry research, I recently connected with ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.