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Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...
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 ...
In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and ...
The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
Gage’s biography of J. Edgar Hoover is a page-turner I could barely put down. Hoover was a closeted obsessive, spending a ...
Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar shared his inspiration for working in ‘Kesari Chapter 2’ and said that he wants to highlight ...
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
A History of the World in Six Plagues" explores the racial and class inequalities linking infectious disease epidemics.
The modified National Park Service site now showcases stamps of Tubman and civil rights leaders while removing explicit ...
Several historians criticized the revisionist history enacted through several changes to the National Park Service's website.
Hamilton despised slavery and fought to end it — at least, that’s what most history books say. But new research by the Schuyler Mansion State Historic Site, the former upstate New York home of ...