The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of ...

Alexander Hamilton. The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor; he used original documents to ...

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman looks beyond the empty tomb to find perhaps ...

In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could ...

In The Strange and Tragic Wounds of George Cole’s America: A Tale of Manhood, Sex, and Ambition in the Civil War Era, Michael deGruccio discovers a generation betrayed by the fight for freedom.