This Here Is Love” by Joy L. Perry is just the second novel to be awarded the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism by the Stowe ...

"Race did not spread because it was scientifically persuasive. It spread because it served very human interests." ...

New York Times bestselling author Juliette Cross will visit Jacksonville for a book release party and author event, according to Our Town Books.

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I don’t really see the point of grafting onto him our vision of what he ought to have been doing. I’m interested in trying to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a young lawyer, the man who would become America’s third president defended freedom-seeking slaves, drafted legislation to ...

Before Africans could be enslaved at scale, they first had to be portrayed as living outside the timeline of civilization itself. This narrative—the pre-story of slavery—made domination appear not ...

Len Deighton, a prolific writer whose tough, stylish spy thrillers featured on bestseller lists for decades, has died. He was 97. Deighton’s literary agent, Tim Bates, said he died Sunday. No cause of ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma faced pointed questioning from both Republicans and Democrats at his Senate Homeland Security Committee confirmation hearing Tuesday, with critics ...

Pamphlets, booklets and activities educating children on history and science in national parks have come under review as the ...

Spring has finally arrived, and with it comes spring holidays. At sundown on April 1, Passover begins with the first Seder, ...

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