Crawford Kilian was born in New York City in 1941. He was raised in Los Angeles and Mexico City, and was educated at Columbia University (BA '62) and Simon Fraser University (MA '72). He served in the ...

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The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

Dr. Harvey Amani Whitfield, a Dalhousie alum and expert in the history of slavery, recently returned to Halifax after 20 years to take up a new joint role at Dalhousie and the University of King’s ...

In this book Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its demise nearly three hundred years later. Most ...

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The United States is home to more than 35,000 museums that explore the nation’s culture and history. Restored plantations that commemorate the Old South are popular among them, celebrated as “bastions ...

When it comes to the absurdity of American taxpayers giving “reparations” to black descendants of slaves, it’s hard to limit the number of objections. Apart from the fact that American slavery, though ...

The "NewsNight" host slammed Michaels in an on-air monologue Aug. 19 after nearly a week of backlash aimed at the "Biggest Loser" celebrity trainer turned conservative commentator over comments that ...

It is not common knowledge, but it should be: there is a centuries-long and ugly history of slavery north of the 49th parallel. The Underground Railroad, a secret network that brought 30,000 enslaved ...