Instead of using the secret routes along the Underground Railroad to find freedom in the North, thousands of enslaved Black people fled to free Black communities in Southern slaveholding states.

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his birthdate. We urge all Americans to consider the ...

In the optimistic missive, Washington extols the revolutionary spirit of the American people—even in defeat—and makes a rare ...

Donald Trump is the worst thing that has ever happened to our country. Every day I try not to think of all the horrible things he is doing to destruct our country. He may be a showman that creates ...

A collection of essays by the late David McCullough, including some never published before, will be released this fall.

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

The wonders of the wild alphabet, come in many shapes and sizes. Such as the curly caterpillar letters. They start by looping from the top, before curling out the bottom. They really are that simple.