American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

The Gulf of Mexico covered the gently sloped sand hills of lower Arkansas until about 50 million years ago. The Ouachita orogeny--the collision that pushed up what we know, in eroded form, as the ...

Deep beneath the many differences between Trumpers and anti-Trumpers is a more fundamental difference, Andrew Manis says.

The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ...

Lawsuit targets rezoning of land for industry, which would displace hundreds in Modeste, a predominantly Black community in ...

Four Kansas counties bear the names of leaders in the battle to preserve slavery while a Kansas school district has the name ...

One of the most famous TV shows of all time, Friends, is also leaving Netflix after years. Fans are now unable to stream the ...

Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose “What Hath God Wrought” became a widely acclaimed chronicle of ...

In Milan, a special performance at the Opera prison has featured instruments made from smugglers' boats that brought migrants ...

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

The recent capture of Nicolás Maduro by US forces signals a troubling return to imperial discipline, echoing historical ...