A Virginia Slave Schooled in Scotland Made a Bravehearted Bid for His Freedom
Jamie Montgomery failed, but his case set a precedent that ended chattel bondage in Scotland 12 years later
Zephaniah Kingsley: Champion of Free Blacks
Roving merchant and slave trader approved of bondage system but saw freedmen as linchpin
When Truth Spoke to Power
Freedom Rider Jerome Smith stood up to Robert Kennedy with shocking candor about violence against black Americans
How Southerners Became Sympathetic to Suicide
Self-destruction is seen as heroic instead of an act of cowardice
A Winning Essay: Bill Pickett, the Bulldogger
In her winning essay Mayumi Torres, a sixth grader at San Antonio's Pieper Ranch Middle School, profiles Texas-born rodeo legend Bill Pickett
Tuskegee Airman Charles McGee: ‘Do While You Can’
Charles McGee never thought much of flying until he started training at Tuskegee. When he finally left the U.S. Air Force, he had 30 years and three wars behind him.
Congress Changed the Way Lincoln Fought the Civil War
Radical Republicans pushed for aggressive military policy, emancipation, and Western expansion
Explore Life Along the Levee
New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862
Strong Men vs. Strongmen: When American Athletes Try to Play Fair With Totalitarian Regimes
Jesse Owens won a coup in Hitler's Germany, but today's NBA stars kowtow to China
Jazzman James Reese Europe Taught White America How to Swing
After leading Harlem Hellfighters in battle, renowned band leader lost his life in backstage fracas
Black Pioneers Found Freedom on the Frontier Long Before Civil War
The Northwest Territory states were home to thousands of African Americans in the early 1800s
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Colonial New England Got Filthy Rich Off the Slave Trade
For a century and a half, wealthy northerners built their fortunes off sugar, rum, and human misery
Colin Powell: The Vietnam War Years
Colin Powell's military prowess showed early in his experiences in Vietnam and would shape the leadership abilities that would later catapult his career.
