Christian legal experts debate whether Trump’s deportations to a foreign prison cross the line into exploitation.

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Just as Amistad case upheld the right to stand up against dehumanising bondage, Ambedkar’s Constitution enshrined the ...

If the Right were to win, America 4.0 would be a leaner, market-driven republic in which power and responsibility for retirement income and healthcare would shift from Washington to states and ...

Think about abolitionism, which took on the biggest, most intractable power in the United States. And I think about abolitionism as Black abolitionism — and about enslaved people who managed to ...

Dutch historian Rutger Bregman can hardly complain about a lack of media attention. His works are on the shelves in bookshops ...

How did the idea that choice and freedom are synonymous come to shape culture and politics across the globe? In The Age of ...

There they were on Opening Day, the doddering survivors of the 1975 Red Sox: Bill Lee, Carlton Fisk, Fred Lynn, and many others. A stooped, 85-year-old Carl Yastrzemski was pressed into service to ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia that day to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at a home in ...