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Louis Fatio seized an opportunity to recount his version of his life—a story that had been distorted and used by white Americans for various political purposes.

Once a means of survival, and then an exploitative spectacle, the sport can also embody a synergy with a top predator in Florida’s changing landscape.

A new book links the rise of American prisons to the expansion of American power around the globe.

Telling a spooky story around a campfire—or in a dorm room—may be the best way to keep a local legend alive.

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

Some Native Americans chose to fight for the Southern cause.

On the legal challenges to racist presidential policy that led to the Trail of Tears.

Clashes between sovereignty rights and civil rights reveal an uncomfortable and complicated story about race and belonging in America.

Mark Massaro reviews Jason Vuic’s “The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream.”

A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.

How Mexico—and the fugitives who went there—helped make freedom possible in America.

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.

Most recent scholarship, while supporting the view that the policy was vicious, has not addressed the question of genocide.

Trump echoed a former Miami police chief’s anti-black words and animus.

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.

On the integrated Union regiments composed of white, black, and native men who fought in the Civil War's western theatre.

Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.

The amazing true story of Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who patrolled the Wild West.