Making Black Freedom in the World” uses artifacts, art, audio and video to explore the horrors of enslavement alongside the ...

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

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

World’s Fairs were created to launch futuristic technology and products, but ended up selling ideas and experiences. 174 ...

Harriet Jacobs, in her 1861 book “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” remarks: “It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one’s ...

Frederic Bastiat is an often unsung hero of 19th-century economic thought. His lessons on freedom and trade are timeless and ...

For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end.

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

The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...

Slavery in Ancient Greece was acceptable and common, as in most organized societies of the time, yet with differences between ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century ...