In recent years, genealogists looking into the ancestry of America’s first lady ... One such slave was Solomon Northup, and it is the film adaptation of his 1853 narrative 12 Years a Slave ...

Over the course of the past 16 years, his films have included a biopic about an Irish political prisoner on hunger strike ...

Born into slavery, Harriet Jacobs would thwart repeated sexual advancements made by her master for years ... as a slave. The book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was one of the first ...

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles ...

A new exhibition at the author's home in Chawton, which has never previously displayed all six first-edition books together, ...

The 12 Years A Slave director, 55 ... Now, we look back at all the previous actors to star as 007. The first star to hit the screen as Bond was the devastatingly charming Sean Connery, starring ...

Classic works of fiction and nonfiction have been read by generations of readers and have stood the test of time across decades since their original ... was 15 years old. When the book was ...

A team of U.S. employees at Hachette wrote an open letter to management in protest over a new conservative book imprint ...

Whether it’s a classic we look forward to year after year or a story hot off the press, here are my favorite Christmas books for a range of ages and reading levels.

While their stories are rarely documented, there are some exceptions, such as the 100 years lived by Lucy Vaughn, a former slave who as a ... in the fields for the first time.

A charged soap opera about the sacred process of papal selection should have never seen the light of day. Here’s how star ...