Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US ...

(CNN) — Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked across the body of a formerly enslaved Louisiana man, “Scourged Back” is one of the 19th century’s defining photographs. The image was so ...

He grew up in rural Surry County as the youngest of 12 children to a father who paid the bills with a 34-year career ...

A West Wales theatre is marking Black History Month with film screenings celebrating Black voices, stories, and resilience.

Shot in 1863, "Scourged Back" was a key image in abolitionists' anti-slavery campaigns during the American Civil War. - McPherson & Oliver/National Gallery of Art EDITOR’S NOTE: In Snap, we look at ...

Depicting a crisscross of welts and scars streaked across the body of a formerly enslaved Louisiana man, “Scourged Back” is one of the 19th century’s defining photographs. The image was so widely ...

That is, of course, a tried-and-true liberal tactic. When challenged, invoke the ultimate straw man. After all, no sane person seeks to defend slavery or diminish its horrors. But, from the liberal ...

Langston Hughes, my favorite writer, wrote a poem in 1926, when he was 25 years old. It declared, with a mix of substantial sadness and delicate defiance, "I, too, am America." Born in the long ...

Introduction : mapping the Mississippian shatter zone / Robbie Ethridge -- Events as seen from the north : the Iroquois and colonial slavery / William A. Fox -- From refugees to slave traders : the ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...