Harriet Beecher Stowe

Debunking the myths of the domestic slave trade.

A Virginia congressman has filed a bill to make the swamp a National Heritage Site.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman authored the beloved short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," but also supported eugenics and nativism.

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.

Why did the man known as the “father of Black nationalism” defect to the Democratic Party during Reconstruction?

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

His conception of what appeals to suburban voters is frozen in the past.

The heart-tug tactics of 1950s ads steered white American women away from activism into domesticity. They’re still there.

How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.

Andrew Delbanco's new book positions the debate over fugitive slaves as a central factor in the nation's slide toward disunion.

Thomas Dixon’s racist discourse lurks in American politics and society even today.

Thanks to the new acquisition, scholars at the Athenaeum library are connecting the dots of the city’s history of abolitionists.

Reading recommendations from a lifelong education.

Sex-specific physical education granted women rare authority over their bodies, but also promoted a narrow biological model of womanhood.

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War.

Five historians weigh in on a new book about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

American niceness is the absolute worst thing to ever happen in human history.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

For hundreds of years, Florida has had the reputation of being a little unstable.

A new book argues that Darwin failed to capture the American imagination because of the untimely death of Henry David Thoreau.