The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

The Trump administration’s arguments against birthright citizenship for all are ahistorical, and make no sense when ...

Extolling peace has characterized the classical liberal movement from the eighteenth century, at least from Turgot, on ...