Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Benjamin Lay inspired his congregation to turn against slavery. His story is coming to Quintessence Theatre in May.

Four Portuguese-language countries have new documentary heritage registered in the Memory of the World Programme of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which ...

ACLU has filed a lawsuit on behalf of military families in Fort Campbell, Japan and Italy, over the removal of books following executive orders.

Chris Anderson was leafing through various books in Allegheny College’s archival collection when he came across a long “lost” artifact. “I was planning an event and I was looking randomly through some ...

Rev. H.K. Matthews can't speak with that bullhorn baritone he once possessed, but the impact of his legacy speaks louder than ...

Today, its multisource dataset, currently housed at Rice University, features information on more than 30,000 slaving vessels ...

D.E.I. backlash aren't dogmatic or indoctrinating. They offer nuanced and complicated visions of race and other forms of ...

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So writes Yair Zivan, the editor of this timely volume, setting out the overarching message of this book in his introduction. Many of the essays that follow do indeed make this argument, often ...