Some food traditions are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African American chefs have largely been ...

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating ...

By Stacy M. Brown Black Press USA Senior National Correspondent A year after its release, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: ...

Black theology in the Americas begins here: not in pulpits or printed tracts, but in the survival strategies of the displaced. Its earliest witnesses show that theology is not an abstract system but a ...

As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...

In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...

The world’s largest slave society was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff beyond what’s commonly assumed.

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 ...

Cincinnati collections house books bound in human skin. The books gained the attention of John Hancock and George Washington.

Hundreds of rabbis from across U.S. are speaking out on Zohran Mamdani — exposing deep divides over Israel, antisemitism, and ...

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

When Frederick Douglass spoke in Cork on October 23, 1845, his message was clear and uncompromising. The formerly enslaved ...