The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

Slavery is often taught as a straightforward chapter in American history: it began, it was brutal, it ended with the Civil War, and the nation moved on. But the truth is far more complex, global, and ...

In "Slavery and the Making of America," an ambitious four-hour PBS documentary told in two parts, viewers are introduced to "the Founding Fathers you never knew." Those enslaved were the "nameless, ...

Carnival in New Orleans -- Paths to slavery -- A revolutionary forge -- Empire's emissary -- Conquering the frontier -- Masks and motives -- The rebels' pact -- Revolt -- A city in chaos -- A second ...

John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

Jesup’s proclamation was one of the earliest instances in American history in which emancipation was wielded as a military ...

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Somerset, Massachusetts / / December 6, 2025 / CRF Publishing LLC Key Takeaways: American political polarization follows ...

It's estimated that over 11 million Africans were enslaved, with more than 1 million dying during the brutal transatlantic voyage to the New World. Once slaves were captured throughout the continent, ...

No longer is racial terror the sole work of people in white hoods but inked in this nation’s history through legislators. America has a race problem, and it has ...