Time has a way of sanding off the rough edges of historical memory, turning even the most convulsive, contentious lives into opportunities for national triumphalism and self-congratulation. With ...

NEW YORK (AP) — David W. Blight's biography of Frederick Douglass and Sarah Smarsh's "Heartland" are among the nominees for awards celebrating nonfiction books of social consciousness and literary ...

LYNN – Retired Item reporter Tom Dalton started writing about Frederick Douglass in 1990 to inform readers of the prolific abolitionist’s connection to Lynn. Douglass resided in Lynn from 1841-1848, ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT This hourlong film about 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass is based on David W. Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 biography and produced by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Along ...

Black History Month got off to a resonant start in Terre Haute when Indiana State University's Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity donated an ultra-rare reprint of abolitionist Frederick Douglass' first ...

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION. REPORTER: FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WASHINGTON BAILEY WAS BORN AROUND 1818 INTO SLAVERY IN TALBOT COUNTY. WHEN HE WAS 8, HE WAS SENT TO BALTIMORE TO LIVE WITH A SHIP CARPENTER NAMED ...

Though Frederick Douglass remains the most well-known abolitionist to visit Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War, he was not the only one. As many as 30 Black abolitionists and ...

You might remember a few years back when I wrote about David Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” It’s brilliant, by the way. The definitive biography ...

Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. This man began life as an illiterate slave -- nearly all slave owners prevented slaves from learning to read -- and rose from ...

(RNS) — ‘Religion for both Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass was the foundation in many ways of who they are,’ said co-director Stanley Nelson. (RNS) — Frederick Douglass called the Bible one of ...

BOSTON (AP) — A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Kevin Douglass Greene of Tennessee, the great-great-grandson of the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, visited Philadelphia on Friday. "Education is so very important," ...