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

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

After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

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

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

C‑SPAN.org offers links to books featured on the C‑SPAN networks ... Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave Written by Himself. Ms. Davis explored the abolitionist's ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

In Chained to History, Prof. Brady (George Washington) addresses the critical topic of slavery in its complete scope and shows the how the practice of human bondage significantly impacted American ...

The book confronts both Jewish heroism and ... I spoke with Kreitner about this fraught history of Jews and slavery, and why all American Jews — not just those who arrived before the Civil ...