When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

In this excerpt from Letter IX of John Rankin’s Letters on American Slavery, Rankin argues that slavery is incompatible with ...

There’s a difference between being at a crossroads — weighing an important decision at a crucial moment — and being at the ...

With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ...

Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

The article discusses the ongoing issue of slavery in Texas, the rescinding of asylum protection for people of color, and the need for young Progressives to fight for democracy and the Constitution.

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...