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

Frederick Douglass continues to be an irresistible subject for biographers because all of the nation's difficult, miraculous, unresolved creation myths seem to collapse into the single story of ...

Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments still resonate with many today. Classrooms still feel his influence. His insistence that literacy fuels liberation shapes fights against unequal schools.

Frederick’s father, as David W. Blight shows in his extraordinary new biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster), was almost certainly white, as Douglass knew ...

Douglass (whose real name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey) was born of a slave mother and a white father, unknown, on a plantation at Tuckahoe, Md., in 1817, and the story of his ...

Frederick Douglass’s accomplishments still resonate with many today. Classrooms still feel his influence. His insistence that literacy fuels liberation shapes fights against unequal schools.

While the story of the civil rights was one filled with so much strife for African Americans, the walking tour focused on the positive experiences and achievements Frederick Douglass had despite ...

Jamie Stiehm compared the lives and achievements of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. She spoke about how growing up in Maryland affected their lives and led to their work as abolitionists.

HBO’s “Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches” makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was This hour featuring prominent actors bringing the Black abolitionist's words to life, and ...