Some stories wear history like a disguise to speak to today—these novels echo with justice, identity, war, and haunting ...

The world of literature has turned purple, not knowing which color, blue or red, fits the current dilemma that’s causing ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

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Zechariah was a priest and a prophet who stood above the people and admonished them. King Joash (ruled 836-798 BCE) gave orders to have Zechariah killed, and he was stoned to death in the courtyard of ...

The Statue of Liberty is an icon of our political freedom. The Cross is an icon of our spiritual freedom. The Statue of ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

And Douglass did so, it is worth noting, by championing the same founding principles that he celebrated in his Fourth of July ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War.

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Called the “dean of American post-modernists” and “the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,” Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self ...