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

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

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 ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he "shocked and horrified" to learn ...

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

Gage’s biography of J. Edgar Hoover is a page-turner I could barely put down. Hoover was a closeted obsessive, spending a career on an Ahab-like quest to uncover a nonexistent “deep state” of ...

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...