Fitzhugh Brundage’s gripping new book, aptly titled A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War, represents ...

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

Sensitively directed by Suzannah Herbert, a documentary about a small plantation town's ugly past — and lingering present — ...

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

“The 1619 Project” is a frequent target of book bans and challenges around the country. But Nikole Hannah-Jones’ bestselling ...

"It's not enough to declare a month of recognition when the systems we rely on to repair justice are not themselves just," ...

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 Founding Era be erased?

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 ...

New book "The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten ...