More than 175 years after they were created in South Carolina, Daguerreotypes captured in 1850, believed to be the earliest known photographs of enslaved people ...

It had been 30 years since Thomas Jefferson likened the explosive issue of slavery expansion to “a fire bell in the night’” destined one day to sound “a death knell for the Union,” but the fulfillment ...

A short history of an uprising by (mostly) Bulgarian peasants in the waning Ottoman Empire. The peasants fought to abolish their feudal duties and taxes, but many of their leaders were also motivated ...

The 1850 House, located at Jackson Square on the ground floor of the Lower Pontalba apartments, reopened earlier this month after closing for restoration work. Located at 523 St. Ann St., the house is ...

In the decade before the Civil War, the United States grew quickly and argued loudly about what that growth would mean.