A mother who held a woman captive as a slave inside her "squalid" home for 25 years has been sentenced to 13 years. Amanda Wixon, 56, forced the woman - now in her 40s - to shave her hair, regularly ...

KITTERY, Maine — Residents are digging into the town’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade and Kittery Point’s status as a documented arrival port for ships carrying enslaved people. Two plaques ...

Historians often compare today's political polarization to the decade preceding the American Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intensified conflicts between federal authorities and Northern ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — There are major plans underway for a once controversial corner in downtown Fredericksburg. A permanent memorial is planned for the site of the former slave auction block.

An information map stands at the intersection of Clark Avenue and South Broadway in St. Louis, at the entrance to Ballpark Village, as Cardinals fans head to Busch Stadium on June 8, 2024. Slave ...

Allison Mack, the former “Smallville” actress convicted for her role in the notorious Nxivm cult, has revealed what she’s doing with her life following her early release from prison. The former TV ...

Allison Mack is hitting the books two years after her prison release. The ex-Nxivm “slave master” is pursuing a master’s degree in social work, she reveals in the new CBC True Crime podcast, “Allison ...

While the MX Master 4 has some changes on paper that make it a shoo-in for an MX Master 3S replacement, the reality is that most of them don't bring much to the party. It's still an excellent ...

Much of the power of the Declaration of Independence rests on Thomas Jefferson’s opening line: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ...

Purdue University's online master's in Artificial Intelligence will mold the next generation of AI experts and engineers to help meet unprecedented industry demand for skilled employees. The ...

The MX Master 4 is one of the best mice we've reviewed, but so is its still-for-sale predecessor. We pit them against each other to help you decide which is better. I’m a PCMag reviewer and ...