Along the picturesque streets of Georgetown is a trail of plaques marking some of the hidden history of the neighborhood's past. Now known for its trendy shops and cafes, Georgetown used to be home to ...

“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An exhibit detailing the lives of nine people enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia is being reinstalled on Thursday, despite an ongoing legal fight between the ...

Four Notre Dame High School students will unveil a plaque next week marking the site of a notorious slave prison near Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis. This story was commissioned by the River City ...

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Guest: Dr. Rebecca Hall is a scholar, activist, and author of the acclaimed graphic novel, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative ...

Rabbi David Einhorn, an American abolitionist. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, ...

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