Governments and religious institutions regulate marriage. Such regulations are heavily laden with specific moral ideas and cultural taboos. There are heated debates around what counts as “proper” ...
The Jewish people in America have long punched above their demographic weight. Consider how deprived our science, music, letters, film and law would be ...
John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and ...
Think polarization is new to American politics? Harvard research reveals counties with the highest slave populations in 1860 ...
Much has been written about St. Louis’ slave history. The study of census tracts of the times notes the city’s rapid growth of Black slaves increased from 268 in 1799 to 2,656 by 1850. A mere 30 years ...
The Historical Markers project, pioneered by the Columbia University and Slavery project, debuted its first public display last week at a Columbia University Irving Medical Center residence hall ...
Special appearances by Henry Louis Gates Jr. America's defining institution, as told through the lives of nine enslaved people. Enroll in the college course you wish you'd taken, learning from ...
Yale University has apologized for its historical connection to slavery. The Ivy League institution said in a news release on Friday that the apology is a component of its “ongoing work to understand ...
At least 12.5 million African people were trafficked to the Americas during the Transatlantic Slave Trade, wreaking a profound economic impact on a number of states, including Connecticut, according ...
Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens ...
Slavery existed across colonial Connecticut, contrasting with America’s sanitized history. Slavery existed across colonial Connecticut, and enslaving people was legal in Connecticut for more than 200 ...
They stand throughout the room, life-size and conspicuous, yet faceless. One plays a fiddle. Another holds a hammer. Others ...