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As a prelude to the release of the book based on the work of the Yale and Slavery Research Project, this panel discussion focuses on how elite universities, their founders, and faculty over time, have used, benefitted from, and understood the story of enslavement in North America. It also examines how successive generations of historians have written and re-written the story

How the FBI surveillance against James Baldwin backfired for one G-man and how that relates to Frederick Douglass, Thaddeus Stevens, and THAT John Brown.

The content circulating social media offers a very poor representation of the truth of what happened on Oct. 7 in Israel.

The content circulating social media offers a very poor representation of the truth of what happened on Oct. 7 in Israel.

Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national ‘reconciliation’ looked like for decades after the Civil War.

How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.

The only other political censure in the history of Congress—that of abolitionist Joshua Giddings in 1842—was bound up with the struggle against slavery that culminated in the Civil War.

She championed both abolition and women’s rights. And she wasn’t afraid to challenge advocates of either cause.

“Part of remembering,” historian David Blight once observed, “is forgetting.” Perhaps nowhere is this truer than the nation of Poland, where so-called memory wars have been waged over the country’s role in the Holocaust. These battles are at the heart of Judy Rakowsky’s new book, Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II.

The University held a posthumous degree conferral for the late Rev. James W.C. Pennington and Rev. Alexander Crummell Thursday evening.