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.

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.

Library of Virginia editors John G. Deal and Marianne E. Julienne and historian Brent Tarter have received this year’s ...

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

Elia contrasts two figures and places: the pilgrim versus the fugitive and the road versus the woods. In both Confessions and City of God, the concept of pilgrimage is central to Augustine’s picture ...

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, ...

Rome’s reach in the North. A pivotal moment came in A.D. 180 when Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, a Germanic tribe near the Danube River. Facing heavy losses from war and disease, ...

“Whether they were directly involved in rebellion is still an open question, but the implications of their case cannot be ignored.” ...