A newly digitized map offers a rare glimpse at the way Europeans conceived of the Americas before British colonization.

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

A look at 90 years of strong congresswomen.

Georgetown University students consider a fund to benefit descendants of 272 slaves sold by the school nearly two centuries ago.

Histories of the Jews reveal a lot about the times in which they were written.

Key plant and animal specimens arrived in Europe on slavers’ ships

We all know the stereotypes. But what about the suburbs of utopians and renegades?

This is not the first time Barr has been accused of covering up official legal findings.

Three recent books explore different aspects of opiate addiction in America.

How can we understand the physical pain of others?