Harriet Beecher Stowe

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War.

Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

American niceness is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in human history.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

For hundreds of years, Florida has had the reputation of being a little unstable.

A new book argues that Darwin failed to capture the American imagination because of the untimely death of Henry David Thoreau.

The kindness of masters is meaningless in the context of a hereditary chattel system that turned humans into property.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.

Ross Bullen explores the curious case of Prince George Washington, a 19th-century Siamese prince.

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.