We need to read good literature to help us once again find connection with one another. Tragically, we have been desensitised ...

While the origins of the cross as a kiss are still debated, the answer likely lies in the letters of working-class lovers ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

The writer, a two-time winner of the National Book Award, talks about her novel 'Sing, Unburied, Sing,' a journey through the slave South filled with horror and lyricism echoing powerfully in the ...

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era ...