The great abolitionist’s 1852 speech lauded the Founding Fathers while denouncing the horrors of slavery. It deserves to be ...

Residents gather in Springfield to read Frederick Douglass' famous speech ...

Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

Blake Spencer explored the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington with two of his friends. The Howard ...

The Westhampton Public Library will hold Lounging for Literacy II on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., an event they describe as the world’s largest gathering of people reading in lawn chairs.

The Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, born of segregation, now shines as a historic and sacred symbol of respect to those interred there.

Celebrate and Defend Our Constitution,” 11 a.m.-1 p.m., East Shelter, Centennial Park, Ninth and Iowa streets. Food trucks, ...

In 1871, abolitionist Frederick Douglass feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus — enslavement — when he gave a Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery.

"Douglass wrote that democracy is not a set-and-done thing," West Stockbridge Historical Society President Bob Salerno told ...

We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the ...

In an 1871 Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery abolitionist Frederick Douglass said he feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus: enslavement.