Ira Berlin

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

A brief look into Equiano's life reveals that many Black figures were considerably more transnational in their movements and critiques than commonly assumed.

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

Civil War pension records have a lot to tell us about the lives of U.S. Colored Troops.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.

Eric Foner has helped us better understand the ambiguous consequences of what were almost always only partial victories.