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 ...

Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Va., was a Southern belle with Northern sympathies. She secretly aided the Union war effort.

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or ...

Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

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 ...

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

The president once campaigned on making Juneteenth a federal holiday — this year he completely ignored it. Experts weigh in on what's most troubling.

The author's vivid, fluid Fish Tales was reissued this spring to great acclaim. Here, the master writer discusses her life, ...