And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

On July 1st the Fort Leavenworth Garrison said goodbye to an outstanding leader and welcomed another. Outgoing Garrison ...

The Northshire Bookstore will host an evening with authors Bill Morgan and Tom Fels to discuss their nonfiction book “Bennington Vanguards: Pioneers and Poets." The event will be ...

Global militaristic folly turned the U.S. into an economic, as well as military, “superpower.” Stay in the know with our free newsletter Receive stories from Albany straight to your inbox. Delivered ...

One reasonable conclusion, drawn by any number of reasonable people, is that Trump and Rubio were lying to begin with and that the Israeli strikes enjoyed U.S. approval and possibly even active, ...

The Friends of William Lloyd Garrison invites the public to join them in reading aloud Frederick Douglass’ Fourth of July ...

In honor of Juneteenth, BYU invited the surrounding community to gather at the Helaman Fields on June 19 to foster ...

Today marks the 245th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Commonwealth, which took place 85 years before Juneteenth.

Watertown Juneteenth will be held on Thursday, June 19, at 4 p.m. at Thompson Park, Watertown, NY, in celebration of the ...

In New Bedford, Douglass devoured abolitionist writings, finding fire in William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator. A break came in 1841 when he spoke at an anti-slavery gathering in Nantucket.

Boston remained a hotbed of the abolitionist movement throughout the 1800s as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and other movement leaders gathering there to develop strategy, raise ...

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5 ...