It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...
How do we understand Global Capitalism and the World We Live In? Sven Beckert, Capitalism: a global history, Allen Lane £50.
The Great Resistance, an expansive new book by author and historian Carrie Gibson, brings together often unheard narratives to tell the bigger picture of a difficult time ...
The story of the railway and its birth on Merseyside show the contradictions at the heart of 19th-century Britain, writes ...
Former New York Times reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones praises convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur in controversial column, ...
Angola maximum-security prison is one of America’s grimmest lock-ups, where prisoners – mostly Black – pick cotton for ...
If we honor this birthday by recommitting to the fight for freedom—by widening democracy, not shrinking it; by confronting ...
Letters: Graham Hadibi-Williams says current debate on reparations is one of theory rather than justice. Plus Abhishek Kalyankar on India’s colonial experience ...
Ascendant during the Reagan era, originalists argued that the Constitution should be interpreted according to its original ...
In The Great Contradiction, Joseph Ellis reckons with the two evils that arose from the very liberty for which the Founders ...
The Christmas Rebellion, led by Baptist leader Samuel Sharpe, challenged slavery and reshaped the nation’s history.
Estimates of the number of Pacific Islanders captured by blackbirders and forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia range from 61,610 to more than 100,000. Public domain via ...
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