From Minneapolis to Manhattan, the encampments now spreading across college campuses are built on the same principles as ...

In spring 1863, The Atlantic published a feature on Sojourner Truth written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which inspired activist Frances D. Gage to put her own memories of the abolitionist in print. Gage ...

Other Black activists, authors and strategists never do. Abolitionists (White as well as Black) are hardly mentioned, and ...

The former president's interview with Time magazine was telling for both what he was willing to say and what remained ...

Slavery caused the Civil War — that is the bold, and factual, statement that opens the American Civil War Museum's latest ...

The rift between the two men grew deeper as Douglass questioned Garrison’s philosophies -- particularly his commitment to nonviolence and his insistence that abolitionists ignore politics.

There is much to be said for the brutality of a British general election, where a removals van turns up at No 10 within hours ...

May Day is an opportunity to question the religion of work and to consider the virtues of not working, of all the creative ...

Maryland has passed a ban on colleges giving admissions preference to relatives of alumni, but in Connecticut, a similar ban ...

True stories of real people who did extraordinary things act as a blueprint, a roadmap for others to follow. Such stories are ...

Connecticut state senator Derek Slap, who co-sponsored the legacy ban bill, told Inside Higher Ed in March that although he ...

The rift between the two men grew deeper as Douglass questioned Garrison’s philosophies -- particularly his commitment to nonviolence and his insistence that abolitionists ignore politics.