Louis Agassiz

The Civil War's vast death toll joined Earth's deep time story, magnifying its meaning as part of God's creative acts across eons.

The two prevailing historical visions of Louis Agassiz — one gentle and reverential, the other rigid and bigoted — may simply be two sides of the same coin.

Confused 17th-century Europeans argued that human groups were separately created, a precursor to racist thought today.

There's no clear system in place to repatriate remains of captive Africans or objects associated with them.

Will the Black body ever have the opportunity to rest in peace?

A lawsuit against Harvard University demands the return of an ancestor’s stolen image.

For centuries, literalist interpretations of the Book of Genesis have fueled scientific racism and white supremacy.

How geology shaped American culture.

Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.

Black refugees’ journey from Virginia to Boston after the Civil War.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.

Wild, feral and fossil-fuelled, fire lights up the globe. Is it time to declare that humans have created a Pyrocene?

Slavery and the Civil War were central to the development of photography as both a technology and an art.

The history of eugenics in the Progressive Age.

The international ambitions of the US slaveholding class and the abolitionist movement that brought them down.