With Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling the Senate, an increase in book bans is a serious threat.

A new Smithsonian book reckons with the enduring legacies of slavery and capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan Blueprint, Terry ...

C‑SPAN.org offers links to books featured on the C‑SPAN networks ... where he worked as a laborer for three years. He eluded slave hunters by changing his name to Douglass.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History “This book would make an excellent text for a course on the Atlantic slave trade and will be quite useful as supplementary reading for any course that has a ...

Even if a woman seemed agreeable to the situation, in reality she had no choice. Slave men, for their part, were often powerless to protect the women they loved. The drivers, overseers ...

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Instead, I spent a year of my life digging through the archives and old newspaper articles to learn about the barcode’s origins – and eventually went on to write a book about the cultural ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their ...

By Catherine Hong The Coming of the ‘Messiah’: How Handel’s Masterpiece Was Born John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political ...

Lila Pereira, a successful media executive, rises to the top of her career but has to reckon with her youngest daughter, Grace, resenting her for not being a PTA mom. Grace also dredges up the ...

Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required time, patience and ...