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

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

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

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

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.

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...