“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in ...

The second novel following Nathan Harris' bestselling "The Sweetness of Water," the story follows siblings emancipated from ...

For the purpose of this list, the only historical films that will be considered will be the ones that weren't made during the ...

The typical Greek-American historical narrative focuses on the 19th-century immigration but the first Greeks arrived in ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.