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

American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery By Richard Kreitner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32 The central thesis of Richard Kreitner’s Fear No Pharaoh is unsurprising: In ...

Among the writers of this period was Phillis Wheatley, whose life was exceptional in many ways. She received an outstanding education, a rarity for any woman of her times, black or white ...

How do they come to the figure? The figure for the slavery period is derived from five sources. Around half of the total figure comes from lost wages – some £43 trillion across all western ...

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

Why, in an era of falling prices, did the raiders more than sextuple their overhead? To garner more of the slave redeemers' bounty. It seems certain that without redemption, the raiding parties ...

ushering in an important era of American exploration. But critics have slammed his record on slaves and Native Americans. Jackson’s Indian Removal Act forced Cherokees and other Native American ...

Slavery was a long-standing practice in Africa ... filmed in Nigeria and has a wide cast that depicts characters of the era in which the story is being told. Giving it a Nollywood slant and ...