In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of ...

When we think of slavery in America, we think of Africans stolen from their homeland. But Indians were enslaved as well, in what has become a hidden chapter in our history. In his long-awaited and ...

National parks employees have raised the idea of removing books on slavery, Native Americans and George Washington from their gift shops as part of Trump officials’ efforts to scrub these popular ...

In recent years, efforts to scrub Black history from the education system have grown increasingly urgent for right-wing groups. However, African Americans don’t have to rely on the school system to ...

President Abraham Lincoln, in his Emancipation Proclamation, declared, “…all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State… shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free…” The ...

Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...

I have no memory of learning about slavery in school. I was mostly educated in public schools in the South, and while I have vivid recall of studying Southern literature, my only memories of American ...

Among the dark legacies of slavery in America was the sundering of black families: men sold to fuel the Deep South’s burgeoning cotton economy, children wrenched away from parents to settle debts, ...

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry Boddie, 2017. This work juxtaposes an image of a housing development in Harlem, ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

This Banned Book Week, theGrio is spotlighting page-turners that have been challenged and/or banned in libraries across the U.S. Every year, Banned Books Week shines a light on the stories some people ...