Vincent Brown

There is more to Alfred Stieglitz’s iconic photograph “The Steerage” than meets the eye.

How does an image become “iconic?” And when it does, will its meaning change?

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.