History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

During the six and a half years Savvy Shabazz spent incarcerated in nine Kentucky institutions, he worked for as little as 63 ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

At first glance, birthright citizenship and slavery may seem like separate issues, but their histories are deeply intertwined ...

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional ...

Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads "Slavery and involuntary servitude in this State are forbidden, except as a ...

For one thing, it only abolished slavery in the Confederate states ... the Senate passed the 13th Amendment by a vote of 38-6 and sent it on to the House of Representatives- where it stalled ...