Sociologist Eve L. Ewing joins The Excerpt to discuss her new book “Original Sins,” which argues that schools enforce racial hierarchies.

The ongoing assault on the American ideal is a time for dissent, not celebration. A republic born out of revolution is ...

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

The film features a fictional conversation between Thomas Jefferson and Edmund Wright Jr., a publisher, as they discuss Jefferson's life, political career, and contributions to American history.

But Thomas Jefferson also enslaved some 600 people. Jefferson’s words and Jefferson’s actions can be hard to reconcile. How can a man who believed that all men are equal also have owned slaves? How ...

The lowbrow comedy about Democrats being defenders of slavery is a reference to Southern Democrats who were described as “the political heirs of Thomas Jefferson.” Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, ...

PROVIDENCE — He escaped slavery in Mauritania. She escaped female genital mutilation in Senegal. Both managed to make their way separately to the United States, pursuing the American dream ...

A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online. Tai Chang’s ...

Thomas Jefferson wrote: “With money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money.” Given how much Elon Musk stands to gain from his destaffing of the US agencies of regulation ...

In 2017, historian Judith Giesberg and her team of graduate student researchers launched a website called Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery. It now contains over 4,500 ads placed in ...

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented and was joined by Justice Samuel Alito. As in other cases, Justice Amy Coney Barrett concurred with the majority in part and dissented in part. Justice Neil ...

Randy W. Browne and Andrew Lawler expose the ironies and contradictions of slavery as well as the mixed motivations of Black and white people. Thomas Jefferson, an early opponent of slavery without ...