During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Six months after finding a note nailed to a beam at a historic church in Cape May, locals historians confirmed the paper itself is roughly 130 years old. The handwritten message is from of a Black ...

The following are Congressional Research Service Legal Sidebar reports, Letters of Marque and Reprisal: Introduction and Historical Context and Drafting History and U.S. Practice. From the report ...