Slave passage found at Washington house
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Archaeologists unearthing the remains of George Washington's presidential home have discovered a hidden passageway used by his nine slaves, raising questions about whether the ruins should be incorporated into a new exhibit at the site.
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American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed the black slaves, how Asians came in the mid-1800s to build Western railroads.
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A publicly funded project has unearthed a huge burial ground in Washington State.
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With a White House as press-shy as President Bush's, sometimes you have to travel very far from Washington, maybe even to the middle of nowhere, to find out what's really going on.
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Archaeologists are set to begin an expedition this month in hopes of finding a Spanish ship that wrecked along the jagged reefs off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841 carrying a cargo of African slaves.
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Mayme Agnew Claytonâs collection of artifacts devoted to the history of African-Americans is close to finding a home.
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The story of an enslaved African royal who became a key figure in the abolitionist movement has remained largely obscure. But a new documentary has rediscovered it
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By MIKE LAFFERTY  COLUMBUS, Ohio  - The George Dunbar left Cleveland at 6 p.m. on June 29, 1902, bound for Alpena, Mich.  Loaded with coal, the 41.5-metre ship rode low in the water as it steamed northwest into rough Lake Erie weather, her boilers running full steam.
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Democrat Barack Obama, who would be the first black president, has white ancestors who owned slaves, according to a genealogical researcher.
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Exploring the family tree in search of roots (or royal family connections).
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Entering Joseph Young's Northeast Washington home is like stepping into a black history museum with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as the main attraction.
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By Thomas Ryll, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Sep.
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Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.
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These images of the original manuscript of George Washington's resignation speech, which he delivered in
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By Sarah Watson, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va.  Feb.
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama opens his 2008 White House run on Saturday in a setting rife with symbolism and historic links to Abraham Lincoln's fight to end slavery.
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DNA tests on British men shed light on a mystery surrounding the ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, America's third president.