In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.
How does one share this painful chapter of America's past? An historian, and mother, describes the indelible impact of her family's visit to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
HISTORY and The King Center have come together to present Mountaintop Moments, a series of videos in which today's history makers—actors, activists, musicians and sports stars—discuss their vision for an ideal future. In this essay, Historian Daina Ramey Berry discusses the inspiration behind the project, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final speech.
From farmable land to timber and gold, the 19th-century American West has long been described as a land of opportunity. But for many, it was little more than another place of bondage.
