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Edward Spicer's writings indicate an awareness of the deeply unjust circumstances that Japanese Americans found themselves in within Japanese internment camps.

Millions of Americans gained freedom from slavery in a slow-moving wave of emancipation during the Civil War and in the months afterward.

How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

Instead of caring for Black children, child welfare systems subject them to abuse and harsh conditions.

Appeals to childhood innocence helped enshrine undocumented kids’ access to education. But this has also inadvertently reinforced criminalization.

Lessons about “dark age cruelty” and the limits of reformism from 90 years ago.

Daina Ramey Berry details the life of the outspoken activist Sojourner Truth and her legendary speaking tour.

In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.

Many people think of the White House as a symbol of democracy, but it also embodies America’s complicated past.

Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions.

Considering the treatment of Confederate veterans in light of the treatment of undocumented immigrants in the South today.

How did enslaved mothers contend with the possibility that their children could be sold away from them?

The number of detained migrant youth has reached record highs and led to lawsuits over the Trump government’s treatment of minors.

How stories of abuse in minority religious communities have influenced American culture.

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

This document is the rarest of items in the Library of Congress's manuscript collections: a letter written by an enslaved person.

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.

Doctors who sterilized Carrie Buck said she was a “feeble-minded” woman whose future offspring posed a threat to society. Her life paints a different picture.

Commemoration of the 14th Amendment must not display the abundance of freedom, but the hunger for it on both sides of the border.