Harriet Beecher Stowe

The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there.

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.

Andrew Delbanco's new book positions the debate over fugitive slaves as a central factor in the nation's slide toward disunion.

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War.

Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

American niceness is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in human history.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

For hundreds of years, Florida has had the reputation of being a little unstable.

A new book argues that Darwin failed to capture the American imagination because of the untimely death of Henry David Thoreau.

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.

Keen to appear outward-looking and open to Western culture, in 1838 the Second King of Siam bestowed upon his son a most unusual name.

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.