Vincent Brown

Efforts to rescue African American burial grounds and remains have exposed deep conflicts over inheritance and representation.

Several recent books offer a more complete, bottom-up picture of the role sailors and Black political actors played in making the Atlantic world.

Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.

A new book argues that many seemingly isolated rebellions are better understood as a single protracted struggle.

Enslaved women’s experiences with war must be extended to include the everyday warfare of slavery.

A new three-part PBS documentary explores the failure of Reconstruction and the Redemption of the South.