Books That Shaped the Abolitionist Movement ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Public officials are set to unveil the new Frederick Douglass Observatory at the Rochester airport on Tuesday.

A scholar who worked with him for decades observes that what mattered to Moyers was not how close you were to power, but how ...

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Grafton & Upton and the Grafton Public Library are hosting a public reading on July 5 ...

A community engagement session took place in Rochester Monday for a proposed historic byway. The “Harriet Tubman Underground ...

No other changes are expected soon to the fleet of John Lewis-class ships, most of which are named after civil rights figures ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

From the pavilion, participants took a short walk to Edwin Coppock’s gravesite. Coppock, an abolitionist and participant in John Brown’s anti-slavery raid of 1859, was born in Columbiana County near ...

The property has an in-ground pool suitable for a European villa, a cabana with a full kitchen and a bathroom, there is a ...

The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose ...