A forceful 19th-century essay on the rise of the slaveholding oligarchy asked: “Where will it end?” ...

Agrippa Hull, who served more than six years in the Continental Army, emerged from the Revolution respected in his Berkshire ...

If anything, Donald Trump is consistent. Everything he does is bad. The big things and the little things. Of course, Trump’s ...

Henry Highland Garnet escaped enslavement, eluded slavecatchers and made history. How many more enslaved men, women and children would done the same.

About a decade ago, professor and historian Ethelene Whitmire was presenting research on the experiences of African Americans living in Denmark. At that talk, she met – by chance – a relative of Reed ...

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 ...

The economic deprivation still experienced by Black Americans is the flip side of the privilege enjoyed by slaveowners’ descendants.

Wil Haygood’s “The War Within a War” is a rare, illuminating look at the way the war shaped the struggle for equality back home.

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 ...

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