History is the study of change over time, and as The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery shows, the future does not ...

The trial of Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has begun in Paris over atrocities committed during the Second Congo War.

In Slavery in the British Empire and its Legacy in the Modern World (Monthly Review Press, 2025), Steve Cushion lays bare the ...

Equiano was a vocal opponent of slavery, adopting the once-widely-held stance of Quakers who saw the act as an affront to humanity.

Lydia Polgreen speaks to the former New York Times bureau chief Howard W. French about the cost of not engaging with Africa.

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

Karnish takes literally what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote “all men are created equal.” But to assume that the ...

Ex-Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala has begun a hunger strike to protest his trial in France. The trial began this week ...

Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage, sponsored by Spain, mistakenly led him to the Americas instead of Asia. This initiated ...

Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist and a critic, an environmental activist and a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy. His new book is ...

What would these young American Jews have done had they been attending that peace festival in Israel on October 7th, and ...