Dorothy Brown, a Georgetown University law professor, lays out a case for reparations in her new book Getting to Reparations: How Building a Different America Requires a Reckoning with Our Past.

When we think of slavery in America, we think of Africans stolen from their homeland. But Indians were enslaved as well, in what has become a hidden chapter in our history. In his long-awaited and ...

Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or otherwise, ...

At Fort Campbell, books are being taken off school library shelves containing references to slavery; the Civil Rights Movement; and anything else related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. An ...

President Abraham Lincoln, in his Emancipation Proclamation, declared, “…all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State… shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free…” The ...

In 2017, historian Judith Giesberg and her team of graduate student researchers launched a website called Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery. It now contains over 4,500 ads placed in newspapers ...

A powerful & thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Mary Frances Berry Join us for a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Mary Frances Berry, celebrated historian and author of ...

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