In the United States, power often comes down to documentation. For centuries, those in power have used documents to police ...

In her master’s thesis – “Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory” – Gail Shaffer Blankenau shines a light on a dark part of early Nebraska history by addressing slavery through the ...

Every year on Independence Day, I begin reading a book that pertains to our nation’s founding or significant history.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with writer and critic Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection out titled No Sense in Wishing.

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

In a stunning move, the world's richest person, Elon Musk has started the legal proceedings to form his own political party ...

Some of our politicians have forgotten America was founded on religious freedom and respect for those whose religious differs ...

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

Literature has the potential to create conditions and cultures that facilitate important endings and beginnings, such as abolition, such as independence, such as the end of apartheid, the end of ...

The US democracy sold as pure, moral and unprecedented is increasingly under lens.  Behind the facade of democratic virtue lies a history of conquest, slavery and imperialism; carefully constructed na ...