“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.” ~ Aldous Huxley June 19, 1865: Texas Ordered to Free Slaves – Juneteenth June 19,… Read More
Segregation means keeping things or people apart. In United States history, it means the laws and customs that kept black people separate from white people. Black and white people had been seen as different and unequal since Europeans started bringing… Read More
From the earliest civilizations, people have taken others as slaves. Most people in the Western world today agree that slavery is a crime against humanity. Not everyone throughout history has seen it this way, though, and it was a part… Read More