The millions of people who inhabited colonial America left traces of their lives behind—from George Washington’s bed to a ...

Host Al Letson visits Bryan Stevenson’s Montgomery, Alabama, memorials confronting slavery's legacy as the US turns 250.

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Michigan played an indirect but key role in the American Revolution.

An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration can reinstall interpretive panels that critics say ...

This video maps the brutal rise of slavery in America, from the Atlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage to plantation profits, legal codes, resistance, abolition, and the domestic slave market.

PHOENIX — Of the many cruel aspects of slavery, the shackles used to restrain and dehumanize over 12 million Africans across three centuries may be the most visceral tangible reminder. At the Roots ...

NEW DELHI: The West Asia conflict has quietly altered India’s trade map. During April-May 2025, Oman was the 30th largest source of imports for India.In the first two months of the current financial ...

The transatlantic slave trade was a multilayered, highly commercialised global enterprise that lasted from the early 1500s to the mid 1800s. The events over this period are far too complex to fit into ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ideas have gained currency in recent years, making it likely that the nation’s ...

In a moment steeped in history and heavy with moral reckoning, Pope Leo XIV delivered one of the Vatican’s most sweeping apologies for the Catholic Church’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. And ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See's role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican's record a ...

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology Monday for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record a “wound in ...