Recently, historians have worked hard to recover the lives and experiences of African American women in 19th-century America. Often we are reliant on occasions when such women interacted with ...

Most of us know that before the American Civil ... the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above it, with every man, woman and child in chains ...

A book on the Holocaust and Maya Angelou's autobiography were among the nearly 400 volumes removed from the U.S. Naval ...