Among the dark legacies of slavery in America was ... director of the Last Seen archive, a compendium of these postings. In her groundbreaking but sometimes unfocused book, she underlines both ...

Judith Giesberg’s new book, “Last Seen,” gives a far less idyllic picture of how formerly enslaved people connected — and more often, did not — with their lost families. In this deeply ...

When the Continental Congress chose this Latin motto for the Great Seal of the United States in 1782, it did so to assert the fact that thirteen British colonies in North America were now an ...

That’s the subject of Sarah Churchwell’s upcoming book, Behold, America, out October 9 ... How did wealth go from being seen as a threat to the “American Dream” to being an integral ...

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