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June, PTSD Awareness month, is a time to recognize how trauma has shaped our history.

The man who supposedly never told a lie figured out how to stretch the truth when it came to human bondage.

An Illinois high school teacher explains how his state complicates the binary of “free states” and “slave states.”

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

A review of a book by Sean Wilentz's "No Property in Man," which argues that the document is full of anti-slavery language.

A Q&A with author Katharine Gerbner about "Protestant Supremacy."

A Pulitzer historian assesses what we are to make of UVA’s founder, 200 years hence.

White traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather.

Torn from his family in Africa, Pedro Tovookan Parris spent the last years of his short life in rural Maine.

Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.

In the minds of some Southern Protestants, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.

Restoring agency to enslaved people means acknowledging not only that they created marriages, but that they ended them, too.

Dred Scott was an opportunity to settle what the South had previously been unable to achieve either legislatively or judicially.

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.

Determined researchers are finally drawing the lines between higher education and America's original sin.

A new study suggests that high school students lack a basic knowledge of the role slavery played in shaping the United States.

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?

Before we can face slavery, learn about it and acknowledge its significance to American history, we must dispel the myths surrounding it.

How Alex Tizon’s essay echoes a trope with deep roots in American history

Some issues aren’t amenable to deal making; some principles don’t lend themselves to compromise.