The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in US history. Issued at the height of the American Civil War, it granted freedom to enslaved people living in the eleven breakaway states of the...
When Black Lives Matter protesters toppled a statue of former US President Ulysses S Grant in 2020, it was big news! They targeted the statue because although Grant was a Civil War hero who helped bring about an end to slavery, he was a controversial figure too – and...
Think you know all about the American War of Independence? Think again! This is the untold story of the African and Native Americans who fought in the war that defined our country....
Around the year 1500, in a region of the Yucatan Peninsula between the Aztec and Mayan empires, a girl who came to be known as Malitzen was born. She rose from slavery to become a Spanish noblewomen but was she a traitor to her...
