Slavery Abolition

When 18-year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman, the son of a Philadelphia dry-goods store owner, entered Yale in 1965, he took his meals, like all freshmen, in the Commons, a vast, baronial dining hall in a cluster of beaux-arts colossi that the university had constr…

Traders, throughout history, have sought new markets and been natural globalisers. Traders, producers and consumers, all parties gained from trade. Spices from India were so valuable in Europe that the voyage of Christopher Columbus to find a shorter sea rout…

Several countries are boycotting the Nobel ceremony to protest the Academys choice to award the literature prize to Peter Handke. The Austrian author has been criticised for his stance on the wars in former Yugoslavia and on late Serbian leader Slobodan Milo…

In The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War, Joanne Freeman examines the increase of violence in the US Congress experienced from the 1830s to 1861 in the build-up to the US Civil War, a period that witnessed the rise of the mass…

Since the founding of America centuries ago, Americans have been a pervasively religious people. What is the theological and ethnic diversity and enduring strength of American religion in general, and Christianity and evangelical faith in particular? How have…

The United States is ripe for secession. Across the world, established states have divided in two or are staring down secession movements. Great Britain became a wee bit less great with Irish independence, and now the Scots seem to be rethinking the Act of Un…

Headline from the New York Herald, Dec. 7, 1865, announcing the end of slavery with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  (Photo: Library of Congress) Today is Dec. 6. On this date: 1790 Congress moved to Philadelphia from New …

Everybody, well most everybody, knows former Massachusetts Governor William Weld has mounted a primary challenge against Donald Trump along with ex-Teaparty Congressman Joe Walsh from Illinois. And everybody knows heand Walshhave a snowball's chance in hell o…

Civil Eats partnered with Americas Test Kitchen to develop this story, which today airs an audio version as part of their podcast, Proof from Americas Test Kitchen. Proof goes beyond recipes and cooking to solve food mysteries big and small. Listen here. My …

So many thousands of books deifying Abraham Lincoln have been published that it is nearly impossible for the average citizen to learn much of anything that is truthful about Lincoln's presidency.This book should create doubt in anyone’s mind over the designat…