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 ...

1780: Pennsylvania declares that all black children born slaves will be freed at age 28. 1750: 61% of all British North American slaves -- nearly 145,000 -- live in Virginia and Maryland ...

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

The Trump Administration wants us to believe that somehow trying to integrate Black people into society hurts the 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 ...

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 ...

In new novel Zeal, Morgan Jerkins reclaims the narratives of enslaved women, portraying them not just as victims of history, ...

The wooden writing tablet is the only deed of a sale of a slave to have been found in Roman Britain.Originally it was coated with black wax in which the scribe wrote with a stilus, but now his ...