Poverty in Northern Ireland forced a massive flight of Scots-Irish to the colonies. The majority of white colonists resided in the North, but the majority of black people lived in the South ...

Black and white women worked side-by-side in the fields ... In Johnson's own county, at least 20 African men and women were free, and 13 owned their own homes. In 1640, the year Johnson purchased ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Al Jazeera looks at the US economy, demographics, geography and other indicators ahead of the November 5 elections.

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But it was rediscovered in 1963, when researchers identified 13 breeding colonies in the high mountains ... as 420 miles in a single day. Yet black-capped petrels face new threats along the Atlantic ...

A twice-impeached convicted felon with authoritarian impulses will return to the White House as the 47th president of the ...

We can see a clear division on racial lines, with seven in 10 white Georgian voters saying they voted for Donald Trump. Black ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

Donald Trump wins the Presidential Election in the key swing state of North Carolina, picking up the 16 Electoral College ...

The high demand for products, and the inhumane conditions of the industries, fomented revolts by the enslaved workers and by ...