The handwritten resolution, signed by 116 Baptist ministers from Massachusetts who called slavery “repugnant,” was thought to ...

A central theme of the books was the Lost Cause, a narrative – considered mostly mythical by historians – that holds that slaves were content and that Virginia could have dealt with slavery on ...

The books didn't ignore slavery in their lead-ins to the Civil War, but there was also a lot of talk of states' rights and other issues.

If you’re wondering what happens when history is bowdlerized or suppressed, lies are enshrined, free enquiry stifled, empathy ridiculed, education crippled, and hatred valorized, take a look at ...

The Rarest Fruit” depicts how Edmond Albius, a 19th-century Black wunderkind, solved a pollination puzzle.

A judge awarded a woman $29.6 million in damages Tuesday morning in a lawsuit filed against her adoptive parents who ...

Oprah Winfrey has selected Bruce Holsinger's novel "Culpability" as her latest book club pick. The story explores the ethics ...

Show With Trevor Noah' writer takes aim at a vexing problem — student loan debt — in 'The Payback,' a female-driven satire ...

You might have meant a ladies’ magazine which has a party line as rigid and sterile as that of, say, either the Communist or ...

Tulsa book reviewer Connie Cronley says two new Western reads, one from a local author, offer gripping, factual accounts of ...

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By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...