It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." We all know the old saying: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Our past is a part of us, ...

There’s a sad irony in a historical commission removing a book of slave remembrances, titled “Remembering the Days of Sorrow,” from a plantation’s gift shop. Yet that is one of 25 books, some about ...

After visiting the Varner-Hogg plantation an hour south of Houston, historical book publisher Michelle Haas seemed incensed by what she had seen. At an exhibit that details the farm’s use as a sugar ...

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has published a landmark book on the era of Indigenous slavery in Alaska that endured more than two decades after passage of the 13th Amendment to the federal ...

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2012"--Title page verso. "Making Slavery History focuses on how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution ...

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In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa. By Thomas Meaney Thomas Meaney is the ...

History is most trustworthy when all voices in the chorus are heard. Fewer Black, brown or white Texans know the lifestyles of the people enslaved on plantations, in towns and in cities, or how they ...

The university also issued a historical study and announced steps to address this legacy, including new support for public education in New Haven, Conn. By Jennifer Schuessler Yale University on ...