The perpetually contemporary Williams, as Ellington famously described her, mastered the language of swing. By Natalie Weiner...
Day: December 16, 2019
Bessie’s voice was elemental, a force set free from deep inside the world. It was a hot...
By the outbreak of the Civil War, the seeds for the later mass incarceration of black people...
The South was allowed to go back to their old ways of bigotry. The American Story is...
Andrew Johnson lacked Lincoln’s political skills and instead exhibited a stubbornness and confrontational approach. Introduction President Johnson...
Fictional accounts of white Southerners make it seem it was fun to be a slave on a...
The spread of Christianity in the Early Middle Ages (from the fifth to tenth centuries) marked the...
Slavery, for many civilizations throughout human history, has been an inescapable fact. By Harrison Kavanagh Like all...