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Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...
After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...
Author Scott Spillman joins Morning Joe to discuss his book 'Making Sense of Slavery: America’s Long Reckoning, from the Founding Era to Today '. Trump preparing to sign order to dismantle ...
Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years ...
In Chained to History, Prof. Brady (George Washington) addresses the critical topic of slavery in its complete scope and shows the how the practice of human bondage significantly impacted American ...
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War. ‘THE OLD PLANTATION,’ watercolor attributed to John Rose, possibly ...