John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

The Frederick Douglass Honor Society will hold its annual community reading of Frederick Douglass’s historic address “What to ...

In the winter of 1773, 29-year-old Dianah Nevil, a woman with Indigenous, African and European ancestry arrived in Philadelphia with her young children and made a remarkable claim– one that set her on ...

New Bedford, Mass. is home to a significant piece of abolitionism history The Nathan and Polly Johnson house was an underground railroad site and the first home to Frederick Douglass as a freed man ...

Several events in Utica, Rome and Petersboro over four days will celebrate Black history, art and music, and the area's ties to abolitionism plus fun.

The Erie Canal is turning 200. New York is throwing a summer-long party. The waterway, one of the continent’s most significant, has a history full of abolitionism, commerce and cultural connection.

Abortion abolitionism then got a major boost in the late 2010s, when some evangelical pastors began preaching about it, including Jeff Durbin, a charismatic former Hollywood stuntman, and Brian ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright citizenship," the roots of which go back to the 19th century.

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved ...

When Reverend John Rankin moved to the southern Ohio town of Ripley on the banks of the Ohio River in 1822, he quickly became one of the state’s first and most active conductors on the Underground ...

The History of Abolitionism Shows How One Person Can Help Spark a Movement 8 minute read A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905.

A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905. Credit - Felix Koch/Cincinnati Museum Center/Getty Images Division, crisis, and ...