A UChicago legal scholar examines how forced labor persists in U.S. prisons—and what it will take to change the system ...

Short for “June Nineteenth,” the holiday marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the ...

America's Second Independence Day is coming soon. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.

Stacker examined historical documentation to explore Juneteenth's history and significance and to confute the most egregious ...

The results of the local government elections were a boon to government critics whose primary pre-occupation is nitpicking ...

This is another reference to slavery, which was ended by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in ...

A dangerous consequence of not knowing our history is not knowing our truth. Many Americans are taught that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, […] ...

We live in a world of instant information, whether it be true or false. News and information travels the globe in seconds. It was not always so.

June, marks the 120th anniversary of Dr N.M. Perera’s birth. N.M. was born in 1905, the year of the First Russian Revolution.

Preliminary tax roll shows St. Lucie County, Port St. Lucie and Fort Pierce all had property-value increases, but that growth ...

He was the last of three generations spanning nearly the entire history of the United States: When his grandfather was born, ...