The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, HOST: Well, now, to another crisis facing America, a new documentary called “Sound of the Police,” examines the history between black Americans and law enforcement. Here’s a clip ...

The Ohio State University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge ...

In Montgomery, Alabama, wedged between a maze of train tracks and the river, a long-neglected plot of land has been transformed. It's now home to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, the vision of ...

Montero is the author of The Stolen Wealth of Slavery (LegacyLit/Hachette). His previous book was Kickback: Exposing the Global Corporate Bribery Network (Viking, 2018) In 1855, when Stephen Duncan, ...

Enslaved people helped build the foundation of CT. Get to know the lives they lived. Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people helped build the foundation of much ...

Rashaad Thomas argues ICE raids echo slave patrols, exposing systemic racial control and resistance rooted in history.

As the United States continues to confront the realities and legacy of slavery, Americans continue to challenge myths about the country’s history. One enduring myth is that slavery was a largely male ...