Every generation produces books that refuse to fade. Some novels arrive quietly, slip into our consciousness, and suddenly we ...

If anything, Donald Trump is consistent. Everything he does is bad. The big things and the little things. Of course, Trump’s big, bad things get the most attention: sending troops into ...

Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

Given all of this, it is not entirely surprising that sexual assault of enslaved Black men has failed to garner sustained scholarly attention. The sexual assault of white men and boys in colonial ...

Agrippa Hull, who served more than six years in the Continental Army, emerged from the Revolution respected in his Berkshire community yet constrained by persistent racism and the nation’s compromises ...

Maud Hart Lovelace’s books extolled curiosity and kindness, two traits we could use a little more of today, writes columnist Aaron Brown.

"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...

What we have learned this past century is that Black history is American history. But despite the blood, sweat and tears Black Americans have shed here, it seems the current administration is focused ...

A relatively unknown, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a Baltimore native born in the early 1800s who fought for voting rights, women's rights and an end to slavery.

Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents an essential contribution to this rethinking in its account of what was ...