What if the Confederacy had survived? The Civil War shaped the United States, but what if the South had won and formed its ...

The Catholic Church in the United States remained politically neutral about slavery and abolition in the decades before the Civil War, partly because of the influence of John England, bishop of the ...

Slavery in the 18th-19th century United States and British Empire and serfdom in the Russian Empire have been compared in previous studies, but those works have generally overlooked the ...

“In Slavery’s Wake,” a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, deals in huge themes and vast numbers. Over four centuries ...