Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their varying stances toward abolition ...

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

Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th ... century. As Daniel Rasmussen writes in American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave ...

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 ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...