American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery By Richard Kreitner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32 The ...

Indian Slavery in Colonial America. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press ... "The Ties That Bind: Railroad Gauge Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade in the 19th Century U.S." Harvard ...

What was special about America was not that it had slavery ... all of Western civilization eventually turned against slavery in the 19th century. This meant the end of slavery in European empires ...

Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th-century clothes and recreated the ...

In the 19th century, photographic portraits largely ... In 1855 he oversaw the creation of a “Mammoth Pictorial Tour” of American slavery: a 600-yard-long panoramic canvas featuring painted ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

Most of us know that before the American Civil War there were so ... Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above ...

Imagine flying, impossibly, over the Earth in the 17th century—during the time described in American history ... colonists but of African slaves. Up until the early 19th century, almost four ...

For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.