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

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

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

The new historical fiction from the author of 'Paper Girl of Paris' arrives this summer Historical fiction fans: Your new ...

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

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort, South Carolina, that freed more than 700 slaves from Lowcountry plantations. The ...

The Carnegie Mellon University professor decided to pursue the story and, nearly a decade later, published “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,” ...

Unrestricted online access Item Size 1.0G Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar, The Indian War of Independence of 1857 s.n., [London : 1909] 451 p. : front. (fold. map.) ; 26 cm. Addeddate 2013-09-24 01:03:47 ...

History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley once said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some ...

Appian's Roman History in four volumes. Vol. 1 - Books I-VIII.1 [Loeb 2] by Appianus (ca. 95 - ca. 165); White, Horace (1834-1916) Publication date 1912 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics Loeb ...

The Ethereum Foundation has pledged $500,000 to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm, who faces federal charges in the United States. In addition to the direct donation, ...

In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...