As we prepare to welcome spring (March 20) and Passover (April 12) and Easter (April 20). I offer up a prayer for remembering how our spring holidays divide us and unite us and how springtime makes ...

The emancipation of a million serfs in Xizang is a profound event in human history and a significant milestone in the history ...

The liberation of serfs in Xizang was a historic step taken by the Communist Party of China. Given that many European and ...

From 1870 to 1872, thanks to the influence of Chloe Merrick Reed, the number of public schools students increased from 7,500 ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

The sport of boxing, more than any other athletic pursuit, has transformed men who at one point of their lives were seemingly incorrigible.

When history records the work of those who were abolitionists, the participation and contributions of free people of color is ...

Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.

Ahead of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on March 24, the ...

Discover the often-overlooked contributions of Black women to the suffrage movement, highlighting their activism and efforts for equal rights.

Puerto Rico commemorates Emancipation Day, a historical milestone that marks the abolition of slavery on the island.

The phrase appeared on thousands of pages unrelated to Jane Austen before and during her life – and was a favorite phrase of ...