The United States is not likely staring down ... split between the movement’s northern and southern congregations. Meeting in New York in 1840, leaders of the American Baptist Anti-Slavery ...

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussed the size and demographics of the United States in the 1840s and how innovations such as the railroad and telegraph impacted the country.

Life was difficult for Sarah, a free black woman working as the single servant in a middle-class family in 1840s Baltimore ... and will stress the role of Southern cooking, with its African ...

The National Park Service recently announced a grant of nearly $500,000 to Southern University and A&M College for the preservation of a historic structure on the Baton Rouge campus.