Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

In new novel Zeal, Morgan Jerkins reclaims the narratives of enslaved women, portraying them not just as victims of history, ...

Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" offers a reality check, writes Fatima Shaik.

He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass ... Fox News host Brian Kilmeade discussed his book, The President and the Freedom Fighter, about the relationship between Abraham Lincoln ...

And when somebody writes a book about this period in 175 years, I wouldn’t want to come off the way that those Jews who had no problem being served by slaves at their Seder come off. I hope you ...

Among the dark legacies of slavery in America was the sundering of ... In her groundbreaking but sometimes unfocused book, she underlines both the lasting trauma of the ruthless shattering of ...

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of an anti-emancipation woman who was herself a minority The post Slave-owning ...

Slavery in America didn’t end 150 years ago, with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. Based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the film illuminates how in ...