Black writers like Charles Chesnutt had to contend with a dilemma writers today know all too well: give the audience and ...

Some books you read and forget within weeks. Others stick with you, maybe for a few months. Then there are those rare novels ...

Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday ...

Getting truly lost in a good historical fiction story is like stepping back in time. Between the fascinating details of ...

Her novels reveal a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure, and one of her work’s great joys lies in always finding ...

Program at Naper Settlement explores how messages conveyed through quilts guided runaway slaves through the Underground ...

The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the ...

This Black History Month, spend some time with the New York Public Library's "100 Black Voices: Schomburg Centennial Reading ...

A Connecticut scholar’s upcoming book tells the story of a boy taken from his home in Africa and enslaved for decades before ...

On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and businessman named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans ...

Among the new books hitting the shelves for Black History Month are two novels about the legacy of Black American soldiers in ...

With Revolutionary-era escapes and Regency scandal, Hong Kong protests, gothic fantasy and aristocratic rot, these new titles explore who gets remembered, who gets erased and the cost of pushing ...