Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

As the civil rights movement intensified in the 1960s, the textbooks began to draw heavy criticism, largely for their depictions of slaves and post-Civil War African-Americans. Among other things ...

Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Books That Shaped the Abolitionist Movement ...

These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we celebrate on Juneteenth.

Identifying Descendants of Civil War-era Freed Slaves Newly published book offers voices of slaves. By Ashley Claire Simpson/Gazette Packet Saturday, February 23, 2019 Char McCargo-Bah ...

Hence the metaphor of slavery also shapes Augustine’s picture of redemption, which is construed not as emancipation but rather as being purchased by a better dominus. Salvation makes us “faithful ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. A depiction of Herod the Great. The first time I felt betrayed was when ...

A vivid tour through the route of the Roman invasion of prehistoric Scotland prompts reflections on Scotland as a colonised and colonising nation, finds Chris Bambery This book is in part a travelog, ...

“This document shows that Roman legal practices, documented in Egypt, were similarly implemented in other provinces,” observed Prof. Fritz Mitthof of the University of Vienna.