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 ...

‘Charles Sumner’ Review: Fighting Slavery on the Senate Floor As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

“After ‘Scenes of Subjection’ and ‘Lose Your Mother,’ I thought, I just can’t write another book about slavery,” Hartman told an interviewer at the London Review Bookshop last October.

History Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.

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.

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

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

Historians, academics, economists and researchers agree the economy many Americans enjoy today was set up on a foundation of hundreds of years of free labor.

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

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been found guilty of violating the Mann Act. But the split verdict has stirred confusion about sex ...

As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America’s 250th, Gallup serves up sobering data. Per polling just released by Gallup, ...