U.S. Camel Corps

Antebellum slaveholders weren't content with an economic and social system based on trafficking in human flesh in the South alone.

A review of “West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire."

How the U.S. Army's antebellum camel experimentation paved the way for the illicit trafficking of enslaved Africans.

A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos.