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

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ...

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

Heterosexism and cissexism are pervasive, and each of us, irrespective of our own identity and expression, stands at risk of ...

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

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

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 screenwriter and crime novelist on adapting her Highway 59 trilogy for television and finding solace in Trump’s America ...

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

12 Years a Slave, which was shot in four historic Louisiana plantations and around New Orleans, employed several locals for ...

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