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George Washington, Slavery, and Farming

In Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery, Bruce A. Ragsdale meticulously examines Washington’s activities

The intersections of race and place lie at the heart of my ongoing DOCUMERICA series for Black Perspectives. Through the

In the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education, racial tensions rose as African Americans began immediately submitting school desegregation

In the summer of 1782, nearly nine months after Patriot victory at the Battle of Yorktown during the US War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Adam Lee Cilli’s Canaan, Dim and Far. Panic had taken hold