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 ...
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 ...
T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...
The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War" is out Feb. 3, 2026.
African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction, Oxford University Press, 2012, 264 pp., $30.54 ...
Constitutional scholar and Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar is on a professional crusade to encourage Americans to understand the U.S. Constitution. He is writing a three-volume narrative ...
The U.S. Postal Service held a first-day-of-issue stamp dedication to commemorate the life of Phillis Wheatley at the historic Old South Meeting House in Boston..
Against that backdrop, from MAGA’s viewpoint, the rest of the country’s response to the deaths of Good and Pretti looks a lot like the North’s response to the execution of John Brown. Good and Pretti ...
With a song from 1759 as a mile marker, pianist Lara Downes and historian Jill Lepore examine what this land was like just ...
William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...
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