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.

February is Black History Month — a time marked by the recognition of the Black experience in the United States both today and throughout history. Literature is one of the best mediums for expanding ...

Black History Month is a time to reflect on the sins we have committed as a nation. America’s original sin has indeed evolved and is very present today in the White House.

Why Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff casting in Emerald Fennell's "Wuthering Heights" is controversial, explained by literary ...

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.

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

During Samuel Ward's brief time in Central New York, he published one of America’s earliest Black newspapers, made presidential political history in Oswego and took part in Syracuse’s most ...

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 ...

Newman takes you into heavy-duty British history, in a book that flirts strongly with academia. That may make it daunting, but necessarily so; the story is complicated but once you’re aware, it’s ...