The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

The 4th of July is a holiday that means national celebration. But what that looks like has changed through the decades. From ...

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. In the Colonies, slavery and resistance were restless bedfellows, as evidenced by several large-scale ...

Barcelona recorded its hottest month of June since records started over a century ago, Spain’s national weather service said ...

Wading through water up to his knees, Hassan Kargbo points to the vast ocean before him, which is eroding the land and ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from colonial times ...

In their book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engermen analyzed various elements of the slave economy including the role of slave traders ...

The importation of slaves into the United States was banned in 1808, by which time between 300,000-500,000 had been imported. Subsequent slaves were nearly all born in the United States. By 1800, ...