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 ...

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

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998. _____. Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the ...

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

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 ...

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

Associate Professor of History Cynthia Lynn Lyerly and BC alumna Bethany Jay's book about American slavery is honored by the American Historical Association The controversy over slavery’s history in, ...

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 ...