Historian and best-selling author H.W. Brands is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His new book, " America First ," ...

Author Clint Smith asked himself a terrible question while standing on the grounds of the Dachau concentration camp in ...

Sheriffs are unique figures in American politics and American society — but not in the way that many people, especially on ...

The American Library Association has proclaimed Sept. 22-28 Banned Books Week to draw attention to the issue. In honor of the occasion, Random House imprint One World is hosting “Free Your Mind,” an ...

Civil War expert Jonathan W. White will discuss “A Tale of Two Slave Traders: Lincoln and the Destruction of the ...

A recent survey of members of the Tennessee Association of School Librarians found that more than 1,100 titles have been ...

The United States was once home to more than 46,000 plantations. Today, many properties remain across the American South.

Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on ...

Last year, Blight, the Sterling Professor of History, published the book “Yale and Slavery: A History,” which explores ... within New England and within the American nation,” Blight said at the event, ...

New York City itself housed one of the largest urban slave populations in North America: Around four in ten households in the city held people in bondage as domestic servants, carriage drivers ...